Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Frederick Douglass
1. Best Books of 2018: Time

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

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