Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2025
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Cheap Perfume
- Top 20 of 2011: Raven Sings the Blues

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Favorite Books of 2025 MJ Franklin
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Films of the 2010s In Review Online
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library

Trending Works

Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Soi Cheang
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Awake Jen Hatmaker
Tár Todd Field
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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