Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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by Deborah Stratman

Lists

Favorite Movies of 2024: Sarah Welch-Larson
The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2023: Jordan Cronk

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Fatherhood Augustine Sedgewick
Tranquilizer Oneohtrix Point Never
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
The Lowdown
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Into the Morning Grace Vonderkuhn
TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Nine Inch Nails
XXX Danny Brown

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