Year-End Lists

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

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Tobias Lindholm

Lists

The Best Films of 2013: Nick Schager: A.V. Club

Top 5 Films of 2012: James Bell: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

This Strange Eventful History Claire Messud
Universal Language Matthew Rankin
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
The African Desperate Martine Syms
Invisible Child Andrea Elliott
Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett
Loop Brenda Lozano
Because the Boss Belongs to Us
Gentle Grip Public Practice
The Raid 2 Gareth Evans
Look Back Kiyotaka Oshiyama
The Jungle Book Jon Favreau
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
Bird Andrea Arnold

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