Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Jesse Ball

Lists

Best Books Of 2018: Kristin Iversen: Nylon
Best Fiction of 2018: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

The Dead Don't Hurt Viggo Mortensen
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything Jane Wong
XXX Danny Brown
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
Weapons Zach Cregger
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Open City Teju Cole
Revel in the Drama Ren Harvieu
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Black is King Beyoncé

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