Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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1. Best 50 Albums of 2016: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Movies Of 2021 Uproxx
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME

Trending Works

Sly Thom Zimny
Idlewild Idlewild
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Liars Sarah Manguso
The Sunshine Place
Oracle Cate Marvin
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward

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