Year-End Lists

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

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert

Christopher Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms
1. Best 50 Albums of 2016: NPR: NPR Music

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Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Mortal Trash Kim Addonizio
Pivot
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Tiny Dinos
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Dolly Parton's America
It Follows David Robert Mitchell

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