Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Billboard: The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s
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Happy Birthday

by Sneaks

Appears on two lists

Our Top 100 Albums of 2020: Les Inrocks

Albums of the Year 2020: Rough Trade

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The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s Billboard
Top Ten Films of 2018 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

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Trifle Lone Taxidermist
The Empusium Olga Tokarczuk
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4L Yeat
DX Friendzone
Pauline Kael Brian Kellow
Red Rooms Pascal Plante
Burning Lee Chang-dong
Cry Sugar Hudson Mohawke
Synonyms Nadav Lapid
A Better Ghost Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan
Blackstar David Bowie
Earthling Eddie Vedder
Sudan Archives Sudan Archives

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