Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Best Books of 2018: BuzzFeed

Best Fiction of 2019: Powell's Books
Favorite Books of 2018: Lit Hub
2018 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness
Best Books of 2018: Katy Waldman: New Yorker
Best Books of 2018: Bustle

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top Ten Films of 2022 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
My Adventures with Superman
Dìdi Sean Wang
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari
In the Dark
XXX Danny Brown
You Didn't See Nothin
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Flesh David Szalay
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Getting Killed Geese
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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