Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Sells His Record Collection
1. Top 100 Albums of 2017: Quietus
- Favorite Albums of 2017: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
50 Best Albums of 2015 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

HAGEN Titanic
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies
Tell Me How You Really Feel Courtney Barnett
Sable, Fable Bon Iver
Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You Ethel Cain
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Insecure Men Insecure Men
Gone Girl David Fincher
XXX Danny Brown
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Afterparties Anthony Veasna So
The Lowdown

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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