Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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by Becky Warren

Lists

Dean's List 2018: Robert Christgau

20 Best Albums of 2018: Glide

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2020 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

The Jungle Book Jon Favreau
The Power In Us Poppy Ajudha
Universal Language Matthew Rankin
XXX Danny Brown
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Look Back Kiyotaka Oshiyama
The Raid 2 Gareth Evans
Bird Andrea Arnold
Cody Joyce Manor
Gentle Grip Public Practice
Loop Brenda Lozano
How the Word Is Passed Clint Smith
All That Reckoning Cowboy Junkies

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