Year-End Lists

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

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Lamentations

by William Basinski

Lists

Best Music of 2020: Sasha Geffen: Artforum
Top 50 Albums of 2020: The Wire

Top Ten Albums of 2020: Clémence Polès Farhang

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

Hamnet Chloé Zhao
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Monkey Man Dev Patel
The Boy and the Heron Hayao Miyazaki
Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Looper Rian Johnson
Elsbeth
Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Beginners Mike Mills

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