Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Arlie Russell Hochschild

Stolen Pride
- 100 Notable Books of 2024: New York Times: New York Times
- Favorite Books of 2024: Barack Obama
Strangers in Their Own Land

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

Trending Works

Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Oracle Cate Marvin
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Idlewild Idlewild
The Sunshine Place
Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso

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