Year-End Lists

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

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New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2024
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Carmela Ciuraru

Lists

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023: Washington Post
100 Notable Books of 2023: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post

Trending Works

Read Until You Understand Farah Jasmine Griffin
Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
Love in Exile Shon Faye
Hail and Farewell Abby E. Murray
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Mania Hamza
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
The Song of the Cell Siddhartha Mukherjee
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy
The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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