Year-End Lists

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

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Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Big Brave

A Chaos of Flowers
Nature Morte
- 11 The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Treble
- 41 50 Best Albums of 2023: Exclaim
Vital
- 40 50 Best Albums of 2021: Exclaim
Ardor
- 61 100 Favorite Metal Albums of the 2010s: A.A. Dowd
A Gaze Among Them
- 20 The Top 50 Albums of 2019: Treble
- 22 100 Favorite Metal Albums of the 2010s: A.A. Dowd

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Movies of 2019 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time

Trending Works

Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
I Never Learn Lykke Li
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
Our Time Carlos Reygadas
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
Defiance Loubna Mrie
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Horses Jake Skeets

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