Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
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Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2023: The Wire
Albums of the Year 2023: Quietus

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2024 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time

Trending Works

The Candy House Jennifer Egan
The Souvenir Joanna Hogg
Top Doll Karen McCarthy Woolf
Because the Boss Belongs to Us
Universal Language Matthew Rankin
This Strange Eventful History Claire Messud
Bird Andrea Arnold
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
James Percival Everett
Maps to the Stars David Cronenberg
Invisible Child Andrea Elliott
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Adults
When We Were Birds Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

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