Year-End Lists

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

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Music I Enjoyed in 2018: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Clean Slate
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
The Sunshine Place
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Sly Thom Zimny
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Idlewild Idlewild

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