Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The 10 Best Country Albums Of 2020: Marissa R. Moss: Stereogum

Best Albums of 2020: Jon Caramanica: New York Times

Trending Lists

2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Getting Killed Geese
We the People Jill Lepore
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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