Year-End Lists

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

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Consequence: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies

by Snoh Aalegra

Lists

The Best Albums of 2021: Complex

The Best Albums Of 2021: Uproxx
Best Albums of 2021: Passerby

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Paste
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Dept. Q
Lorem Ipsum Jeff Jakobs
Forever Howlong Black Country, New Road
Drive Nicolas Winding Refn
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Genius Myth Helen Lewis
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Choke Enough Oklou
Portrait of My Heart Spellling
XXX Danny Brown
Equus Asinus Men I Trust
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Hyperyouth Joey Valence & Brae

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