Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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Martin Salisbury

The Illustrated Dust Jacket, 1920-1970
- Favorite Books of 2017: Alex Balk: Awl

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
Sinners Ryan Coogler
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Tiny Dinos
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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