Year-End Lists

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

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New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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A Little Prayer

by Angus MacLachlan

Lists

The Best Movies of 2025: Ty Burr
Best Films of 2025: Sean Fennessey

The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win
Top Ten Films of 2025: Brian Tallerico: RogerEbert.com

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

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

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