Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Andrew Bolton & others (text), Sølve Sundsbø (photographs)

Alexander McQueen
1. Ten Best Books of 2011: Library Journal

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Keeper of the Shepherd Hannah Frances
Broker Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Lowdown
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
XXX Danny Brown
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Eddington Ari Aster
Connie Connie Chung
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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