Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Fly: Top 50 Albums of 2011
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Alina Bronsky (translated by Tim Mohr)

Barbara Isn’t Dying
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023: Washington Post
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar
1. Best Books of 2011: Publishers Weekly

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Movies of the 2010s Decade Matt Patches · Polygon
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2011 Fly
Year in Film 2011 A.V. Club
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 100 Albums of 2014 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
50 Favorite Albums of 2011 NPR · NPR Music

Trending Works

Cerulean Salt Waxahatchee
Devil Is Fine Zeal & Ardor
Blackstar David Bowie
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Billie Eilish
Tip of the Sphere Cass McCombs
Testing A$AP Rocky
On the Beach at Night Alone Hong Sang-soo
Collapse Aphex Twin
Into It with Sam Sanders
Counter-Intelligence Robert Hannigan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Every Open Eye Chvrches
Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck

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