Year-End Lists

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

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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California Calling

A Self-Interrogation

by Natalie Singer

Lists

Best Books of 2018: Entropy

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Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 18 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2024 Them
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Albums of 2025 AllMusic
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Baby-Sitters Club
The Big Five--O Derek Senn
More Love, Less Ego Wizkid
Crowd Can Talk Lifeguard
Can't Lose My (Soul) Annie and the Caldwells
Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) Sierra Falconer
The Golden House Salman Rushdie
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The 25th Anniversary of Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera
Becoming Cousteau Liz Garbus
Found Sound Faded
Wild World Bastille
Typhoons Royal Blood

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