Year-End Lists

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

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Atlantic: 14 Best TV Shows of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Christian Lee Hutson

Lists

Top 30 Albums of 2020: The Wild Honey Pie
The Best Albums of 2020 Ranked: The Line of Best Fit

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
25 Best Albums of 2011 Complex

Trending Works

Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal Pavement
The Mars Volta The Mars Volta
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman
We're All Alone in This Together Dave
The Golden Heart Protector Margaret Glaspy
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
The Harbingers
Fear City Kim Phillips-Fein
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Raven Jackson
Before I Disappear Shawn Christensen
Nightcrawler Dan Gilroy
Communion Park Jiha

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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