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
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Peter Gizzi

Fierce Elegy
- Best Poetry of 2024: Maria Crawford: Financial Times
Now It's Dark
- Our Favorite Poetry Books of 2020: Hyperallergic
Archeophonics
- Poetry 2016: National Book Award

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Pillion Harry Lighton
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Weapons Zach Cregger
Edna Martinez Presents Picó: Sound System Culture from the Colombian Caribbean various artists
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson
Shakedown Double Virgo
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Saint Omer Alice Diop
The Shrouds David Cronenberg

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