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
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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- Top 10 LGBTQ Films of 2023: Steve Erickson: GCN

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

American Prison Shane Bauer
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
Succession
Here Robert Zemeckis
American Eden Victoria Johnson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman

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