Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Scott Coffey

Lists

28 Top Movies of 2014: Stephanie Zacharek: Village Voice

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2013 Year in Review Aquarium Drunkard
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
40 Favorite Albums of 2013 Gorilla vs. Bear
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
The National Telepathy Roque Larraquy
A Trick of the Light Eli Winter
28 Years Later Danny Boyle
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Imaginal Disk Magdalena Bay
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
Personal Shopper Olivier Assayas
Passing Rebecca Hall
Cassandro Roger Ross Williams
Black Bag Steven Soderbergh
Blue Moon Richard Linklater

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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