Year-End Lists

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

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Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
Jon Caramanica: New York Times: Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Maria Tumarkin

Lists

The Best Books of 2019: Katy Waldman: New Yorker

Trending Lists

Best Albums of 2025 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
100 Notable Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Enys Men Mark Jenkin
GNX Kendrick Lamar
Fargo
The Bikeriders Jeff Nichols
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Hit Man Richard Linklater
Severance
Empty Netters
La chimera Alice Rohrwacher
The Gilded Age
Maria Pablo Larraín
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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