Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Top 50 Albums of 2022: Brooklyn Vegan

The 60 Best Albums of 2022: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best TV Shows of 2023 Judy Berman · Time
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME

Trending Works

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

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