Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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- The Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx
- The Best Albums Of 2024: HuffPost
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- 100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Succession
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple

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