Year-End Lists

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

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Christian Science Monitor: The Top 25 Books for 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

25 Best TV Shows of 2017: Slant
Best TV Shows of 2017: Esquire
25 Best TV Shows of 2017: Paste

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Succession
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
American Prison Shane Bauer
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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