Year-End Lists

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

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Clarisse Loughrey: Independent: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Jesse Ball

Lists

Best Books Of 2018: Kristin Iversen: Nylon
Best Fiction of 2018: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Hit Man Richard Linklater
Enys Men Mark Jenkin
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
The Gilded Age
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
GNX Kendrick Lamar
The Bikeriders Jeff Nichols
Fargo
Empty Netters
Maria Pablo Larraín
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
La chimera Alice Rohrwacher
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
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Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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