Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Eduardo C. Corral

Lists

Best Poetry of 2020: Boston Globe
Poetry 2020: National Book Award

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

My Adventures with Superman
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
XXX Danny Brown
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: The Podcast
You Didn't See Nothin
Dìdi Sean Wang
Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
Getting Killed Geese
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Here Bas Devos
House of Huawei Eva Dou

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