Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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St. Paul & The Broken Bones

The Alien Coast
1. The 80 Best Albums of 2022: PopMatters
Young Sick Camellia
1. 70 Best Albums of 2018: PopMatters
- Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2018: No Depression
Sea Of Noise
1. 50 Best Albums of 2016: Paste
Half the City
1. 50 Best Albums of 2014: Paste
2. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Paste

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2024 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 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
20 Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Aux Pieds de la Nuit Nyx Nott
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
S***hole Country
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
hexed! aya
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Des fantômes Faune
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
Bird Andrea Arnold
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
“Vladimir Mayakovsky” and Other Poems Vladimir Mayakovsky

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