Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Black Presidency

Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America

by Michael Eric Dyson

Lists

Nonfiction 2016: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
20 Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Life After Reid Davenport
The Secret Gate Mitchell Zuckoff
Getting Killed Geese
The Boy Who Played the Harp Dave
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Eusexua FKA twigs
Andor
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
Bird Andrea Arnold
The Kingdom: Exodus Lars von Trier and Morten Arnfred
Like a Ribbon John Glacier
Barton Hollow The Civil Wars

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