Year-End Lists

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

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Divers' Game
- The Best Books of 2019: Katy Waldman: New Yorker
Census
- Best Books Of 2018: Kristin Iversen: Nylon
- Best Fiction of 2018: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Wild Houses Colin Barrett
XXX Danny Brown
A People's History of Heaven Mathangi Subramanian
The Hate U Give George Tillman Jr.
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Weapons Zach Cregger
When We Were Birds Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Dry Leaf Aleksandre Koberidze
Open City Teju Cole

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