Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Soft Like Steel
1. The 45 Best Albums of 2023: The Forty-Five

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Francesca David Murray Quartet
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Weapons Zach Cregger
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
Idlewild Idlewild

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