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
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

Best Books of 2018: BuzzFeed

2020: Dublin Literary Award
Fiction 2019: Women's Prize
2018 Award: The Booker Prize
10 Best Books of 2018: Laura Miller: Slate
10 Best Books of 2018: Entertainment Weekly
The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Good One India Donaldson
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Bone Valley
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
A Very English Scandal
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Interview with the Vampire
Embedded: Alternate Realities

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