Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Once I Was You

A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

by Maria Hinojosa

Lists

The Best Books of 2020: Real Simple
Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction: BookPage

15 Favorite Books of 2020: A.V. Club

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork

Trending Works

The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Northman Robert Eggers
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Galleons Rick Barot
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Lowdown
XXX Danny Brown

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