Year-End Lists

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

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Amanda Montell

The Age of Magical Overthinking
- The Best Nonfiction of 2024: BookPage
- The 44 Best Books of 2024: Harper’s Bazaar

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
25 Best Albums of 2012 Death and Taxes
Top 100 Albums of 2014 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
50 Favorite Albums of 2011 NPR · NPR Music
Top 50 Albums of 2011 Fly
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
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Year in Film 2011 A.V. Club
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Movies of the 2010s Decade Matt Patches · Polygon

Trending Works

Blackstar David Bowie
Tip of the Sphere Cass McCombs
If Orange Was a Place Tems
Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck
Collapse Aphex Twin
Gloss Theo Burt
Testing A$AP Rocky
Every Open Eye Chvrches
Cerulean Salt Waxahatchee
Mura Masa Mura Masa
Counter-Intelligence Robert Hannigan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Into It with Sam Sanders
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay

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