Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Guilty Thing

A Life of Thomas De Quincey

by Frances Wilson

Lists

10 Best Books of 2016: Publishers Weekly

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
XXX Danny Brown
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Weapons Zach Cregger
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Antidote Karen Russell

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