Year-End Lists

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

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Valdimar Jóhannsson

Lists

Best Films of 2016: Rob Hunter: IndieWire: IndieWire Poll

The 10 Best Movies of 2021: Entertainment Weekly
Top 10 Best Movies of 2021: Michael Phillips: Chicago Tribune
The Best Films of 2021: Keith Phipps: The Reveal
Best Films of 2021: Sheri Linden: Hollywood Reporter
Top Ten Films of 2021: Tasha Robinson: The Next Picture Show

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best TV Shows of 2025 Robert Lloyd · Los Angeles Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post

Trending Works

The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes Elissa R. Sloan
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The Square Ruben Östlund
Antigone Eiko Ishibashi
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
We the People Jill Lepore
You're Weird Now Guerilla Toss
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
American Honey Andrea Arnold
While We’re Young Noah Baumbach
Golliwog Billy Woods
Mr. Bachmann and His Class Maria Speth
Our House on the Hill The Babies
The Other Side of Everything Mila Turajlic

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