Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Aaron Hillis: Village Voice: Best Films of 2016
Film Comment: 50 Best Released Films of 2011
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Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

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The 20 Best Books of the 2010s: For Reading Addicts

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2017 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Consequence
Best Films of 2016 Aaron Hillis · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
50 Best Released Films of 2011 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Ten Best Films of 2025 Jeffrey M. Anderson · Combustible Celluloid
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener
Idiocy Pierre Guyotat
Forged Prescriptions Tony O’Neill
The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan
Cartoons Kit Schluter
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Errors Tour Brian Alan Ellis
Reading the Waves Lidia Yuknavitch
The Squimbop Condition David Leo Rice
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
Bright Green Field Squid
The Good Place
Sourcebooks Peggy Ahwesh
The Wind Rises Hayao Miyazaki

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