Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Trouble the Saints

by Alaya Dawn Johnson

Lists

The Best Books Of 2020: Bustle
Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Top 20 Movies of 2020 K. Austin Collins · Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2015 Complex
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 100 Albums of 2017 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop

Trending Works

The Girlfriends
Dick Johnson Is Dead Kirsten Johnson
AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP A$AP Rocky
Orient Nicholas Gulig
Birdeater Jack Clark and Jim Weir
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Still Life Kevin Morby
Swirl Flora Hibberd
Indigenous Continent Pekka Hämäläinen
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman
Bird Andrea Arnold
Poog Kate Berlant and Jacqueline Novak
We Don't Know Ourselves Fintan O'Toole

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