Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Virginia Woolf and Merve Emre (notes)

The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway
- Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Albums of the Year 2025 Clash
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Idlewild Idlewild
Clean Slate
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
The Sunshine Place
Sly Thom Zimny
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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