Year-End Lists

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

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Fly: Top 50 Albums of 2011
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Death and Taxes: 25 Best Albums of 2012
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Brooklyn Crime Novel
- Books We Loved in 2023: Boston Globe
The Feral Detective
1. 15 Best Books of 2018: O Magazine
A Gambler’s Anatomy
- 100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle
The Ecstasy of Influence
- 100 Notable Books of 2011: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
25 Best Albums of 2012 Death and Taxes
Books of the Year 2011 Benjamin Schwarz · Atlantic
Top 100 Films of the 2010s In Review Online
The Best Movies of the 2010s Decade Matt Patches · Polygon
Year in Film 2011 A.V. Club
Top 100 Albums of 2014 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2011 Fly
50 Favorite Albums of 2011 NPR · NPR Music
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Into It with Sam Sanders
Blackstar David Bowie
Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck
Testing A$AP Rocky
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Cerulean Salt Waxahatchee
Mura Masa Mura Masa
Gloss Theo Burt
Counter-Intelligence Robert Hannigan
Nope Jordan Peele
Tip of the Sphere Cass McCombs
Collapse Aphex Twin
The Other Slavery Andrés Reséndez
If Orange Was a Place Tems

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