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
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Children Under Fire

An American Crisis

by John Woodrow Cox

Lists

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021: Washington Post
Best Nonfiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025 Entertainment Weekly
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 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

Trending Works

Weapons Zach Cregger
Ad Astra James Gray
The Other Story Avi Nesher
Ruth Kate Riley
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
XXX Danny Brown
The Righteous Gemstones
Mob Psycho 100
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
First Cow Kelly Reichardt
Rectify
Chi-Raq Spike Lee
Booksmart Olivia Wilde
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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