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
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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Francine Prose

1974
- 10 Best Books of 2024: California Review of Books
The Vixen
- Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021: Lit Hub
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021: Washington Post
Mister Monkey
- 100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle
My New American Life
- 100 Notable Books of 2011: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Albums of the Year 2025 Clash
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Sly Thom Zimny
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Idlewild Idlewild
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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