Year-End Lists

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

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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by Caroline Shaw / Attacca Quartet

Lists

Favorite Music of 2022: Nate Chinen: NPR: NPR Music
Top 20 Albums of 2022: Sheldon Pearce: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Weapons Zach Cregger
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
XXX Danny Brown
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything Jane Wong
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Open City Teju Cole
hexed! aya

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