Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

The Best Books of 2025: Jasmine Vojdani: New York: Vulture

The Best Books of 2025: Dazed
Favorite Books of 2025: MJ Franklin
100 Notable Books of 2025: New York Times: New York Times
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025: Time
The Best Books of 2025: Boston Globe
Best Books of 2025: Passerby

Trending Lists

80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Poetry Collections of 2025 Electric Lit
The Best Poetry Books of 2024 Elisa Gabbert · New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Dexter: Resurrection
Sport Powell
NDN Coping Mechanisms Billy-Ray Belcourt
Body High Lucki Eck$
Assisted Living Nikanor Teratologen
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Card Counter Paul Schrader
Sex Education
The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Peak Human Johan Norberg
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton

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