Year-End Lists

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

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

by Robert M. Sapolsky

Lists

Favorite Books of 2017: Alex Balk: Awl
10 Best Books of 2017: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2017 Library Journal
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Pillion Harry Lighton
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
American Prison Shane Bauer
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
American Eden Victoria Johnson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Succession

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