Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
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Lists

11 Favorite Albums of 2011: Bob Boilen: NPR: NPR Music

50 Favorite Albums of 2011: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
10 Best Movies of 2012 Atlantic Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
Leftovers Le Ren
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
-io Circuit Des Yeux
Fatigue L'Rain
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
Passages Ira Sachs
Collapsed in Sunbeams Arlo Parks
Sun Cat Power
The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Cuddy Benjamin Myers

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