Year-End Lists

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

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Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Dean's List 2021: Robert Christgau

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
A Very English Scandal
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Interview with the Vampire
Beside Myself DJ Haram
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Bone Valley

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