Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Patrick Nathan

The Future Was Color
- The 16 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2024: Them
Image Control
- Best Books of 2021: Shelf Awareness

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Movies of 2024 Guardian
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2023 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

KICK ii Arca
Vortex Gaspar Noé
Giant Beauty [Ahmed]
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Rabbit Hutch Tess Gunty
Stage Four Touché Amoré
False Dawn George Selgin
Strange Conversation Mandy Barnett
XXX Danny Brown
Empire of AI Karen Hao
The Shrouds David Cronenberg
KicK iii Arca
Portrait of My Heart Spellling

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