Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Kaplan's Plot
- The 35 Best Books of 2025: Adam Morgan: Esquire
The Sprawl
- Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Galleons Rick Barot
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
XXX Danny Brown
The Northman Robert Eggers
Passages Ira Sachs
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
A Written Testimony Jay Electronica
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sinners Ryan Coogler

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