Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2025
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The Collected Stories

by Lorrie Moore

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The Best Books of the Year 2020: Lindsay Baker: BBC: BBC Culture

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
2025 Dublin Literary Award
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Pianoon Limpe Fuchs
Nope Jordan Peele
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Electronic Dream AraabMuzik
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
American Eden Victoria Johnson
Skultura Nick Dunston
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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