Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Burden

by Niki Lindroth von Bahr

Lists

50 Favourite Films of the Decade: Seventh Row

Favorite Films of 2017: Nicole Brenez: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll
Top Films of the 2010s: Nicole Brenez: Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
Tiny Dinos
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
Dolly Parton's America
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Staying Vertical Alain Guiraudie
The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla
Pivot
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade

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