Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Ruth Ozeki

The Book of Form and Emptiness
- Fiction 2022: Women's Prize
- Best Fiction of 2021: Guardian
A Tale for the Time Being
- 2013 Award: The Booker Prize

Trending Lists

The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Succession
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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