Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Fighting in the War Room: Top Tens 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Audiobooks

Astro Tough
Now! (In a Minute)
1. Albums of the Year 2018: Quietus
2. Top 50 Albums of 2018: Brooklyn Vegan

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top Tens 2025 Fighting in the War Room
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
25 Best Albums of the 2010s Revolver

Trending Works

Impersonator Majical Cloudz
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Be the Cowboy Mitski
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Presence Steven Soderbergh
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Moneyball Bennett Miller

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