Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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The Light of the World

A Memoir

by Elizabeth Alexander

Lists

15 Best Books of 2015: Maria Popova

2015 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness
11 Best Books of 2015: Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
2013 Year in Review Aquarium Drunkard
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
LARB Radio Hour
Unstoppable Tony Scott
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
The Righteous Gemstones
The Sports Gene David Epstein
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Neither Heaven Nor Earth Clément Cogitore
Black Bag Steven Soderbergh
3 Faces Jafar Panahi
Blue Rev Alvvays
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson

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