Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Christopher Munch

The 11th Green
1. The Best Movies of 2020: Richard Brody: New Yorker
- Notable Films of 2020: Glenn Kenny

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2024 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2021 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Poetry of 2019 Library Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Ready Player One Steven Spielberg
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Delta Kream The Black Keys
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Marilyn Agrelo
Pam & Tommy
Inside Scientology Janet Reitman
From Ground Zero various directors
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Returning to Reims (Fragments) Jean-Gabriel Périot
Miroirs No. 3 Christian Petzold
The Northman Robert Eggers
XXX Danny Brown
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau

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