Year-End Lists

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

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
NPR: Best Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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by Will Stratton

Lists

50 Best Albums of 2012: Spinner

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Albums of 2025 NPR · NPR Music
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Horse Money Pedro Costa
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Tatsuya Yoshihara
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
20 Cigarettes James Benning
Don't Tap the Glass Tyler, The Creator
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Babes Pamela Adlon
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
Alpha Julia Ducournau
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Love That Remains Hlynur Pálmason

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