Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

by Victor Sebestyen

Lists

30 Best Books of 2017: Christian Science Monitor
100 Notable Books of 2017: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
King of Kings Scott Anderson
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Motherland Julia Ioffe
Zbig Edward Luce

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