Year-End Lists

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

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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And the Science Deniers

by Mario Livio

Lists

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman
Syncope Asiya Wadud
The Glowing Man Swans
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Beginners Mike Mills
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
XXX Danny Brown
Elsbeth
Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth
Pillion Harry Lighton
Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
A Small Light

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