Year-End Lists

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

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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1. 10 Best Albums of 2022: Kitty Empire: Observer
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- Albums of the Year 2020: Rough Trade
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- 89 Favorite Albums of 2015: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Albums of 2025 Amanda Petrusich · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Pater Alain Cavalier
John Candy: I Like Me Colin Hanks
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Post Pop Depression Iggy Pop
Eddington Ari Aster
Rakshak Bloodywood
Memoria Apichatpong Weerasethakul
1974 Francine Prose
Is This Thing On? Bradley Cooper
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Careless Passage Jerome Hiler
Flesh David Szalay
Gladiator II Ridley Scott

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