Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Ye Chun

Straw Dogs of the Universe
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023: Washington Post
Hao
- Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Interview with the Vampire
A Very English Scandal
Deep Water Adrian Lyne
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Embedded: Alternate Realities
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney

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