Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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Lists

The Best Music of 2025: Carl Wilson: Slate

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

Trending Works

Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Getting Killed Geese
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Pavements Alex Ross Perry
Alpha Julia Ducournau
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
American Prison Shane Bauer
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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