Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Maureen Corrigan: NPR: 10 Favorite Books of 2025
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Cold World
- 50 Best Albums of 2024: Alternative Press

Trending Lists

Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
25 Best Films of 2012 Slant
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club

Trending Works

Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
The Antidote Karen Russell
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Rakshak Bloodywood
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus

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