Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Chris Farren

Lists

The 18 Best Albums of 2019: Atlantic

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Diamond Eyes Deftones
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Liars Sarah Manguso
Sly Thom Zimny
Idlewild Idlewild
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
The Sunshine Place
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Clean Slate
Blue Moon Richard Linklater

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