Year-End Lists

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

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

The Best Albums of 2021: Greg Kot: Sound Opinions

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
XXX Danny Brown
Tár Todd Field
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: The Podcast
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Civil War Alex Garland
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Dìdi Sean Wang
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
House of Huawei Eva Dou

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