Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
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Shakespeare in Bloomsbury
- Books We Loved in 2023: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Bent by Nature
Urchin Harris Dickinson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Soi Cheang
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Magellan Lav Diaz
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Tár Todd Field
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists

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