Year-End Lists

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

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by Billie Marten

Lists

The Best Albums of 2025: Callie Ahlgrim: Business Insider
The 20 Best Albums of 2025: Independent

The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine
The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

Top 20 Books of 2017 Time
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Albums of 2022 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Interstellar Christopher Nolan
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Le Kov Gwenno
Fargo
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
The Long Walk Francis Lawrence
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry
Embers of the Hands Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Tearless Amnesia Scanner
Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... Steven Pinker
Eno Gary Hustwit

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