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
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
1. Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

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The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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