Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

75 Best Albums of 2019: Uncut
The 70 Best Albums of 2019: PopMatters
75 Best Albums of 2019: Mojo

Best Albums of 2019: Glide
The Best Albums of 2019: Chris Willman: Variety
The Year in Music: Steve Erickson: GCN
Top 25 Albums of 2019: American Songwriter

Trending Lists

Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014 Tiny Mix Tapes
Favorite 50 Albums of 2012 Tiny Mix Tapes
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016 Tiny Mix Tapes
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015 Tiny Mix Tapes
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Favorite 50 Albums of 2013 Tiny Mix Tapes
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
50 Favorite Music Releases of 2017 Tiny Mix Tapes
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Le Kov Gwenno
Catherine Called Birdy Lena Dunham
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
Death Farm Carl Hauck
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee
Hijack
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
John & Paul Ian Leslie
La 167 Farruko

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