Year-End Lists

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

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Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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by John Akomfrah

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Top 5 Films of 2012: Sukhdev Sandu: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top Ten Films of the 2010s Cinema Scope
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone

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Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Fatherhood Augustine Sedgewick
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Into the Morning Grace Vonderkuhn
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Weapons Zach Cregger
Tranquilizer Oneohtrix Point Never
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
XXX Danny Brown

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