Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Top 10 Poetry Books of 2021: Maggie Smith: Whittier Daily News

Best Poetry of 2021: New York Public Library
Best Poetry Books of 2021: Publishers Weekly
The Best Poetry of 2021: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
50 Best Albums of 2013 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 Consequence
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Movies of 2024 Guardian
The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2024 Loudwire

Trending Works

Ghost Story Fern Maddie
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Radu Jude
Getting Killed Geese
No Name Jack White
Bright Circle Randall Fuller
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
In Front of Your Face Hong Sang-soo
I'm Thinking of Ending Things Charlie Kaufman
Ruth Kate Riley
The Shadowless Tower Zhang Lü
Anansi's Gold Yepoka Yeebo
Amigo John Sayles
Norman Fucking Rockwell! Lana Del Rey
Il Buco Michelangelo Frammartino

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