Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Top 40 Albums of 2012
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Lists

Best TV of 2020 NPR · Fresh Air
The Best TV of 2019 NPR · Fresh Air
Best TV Shows of 2018 NPR · Fresh Air
Best TV of 2017 NPR · Fresh Air

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
Top 40 Albums of 2012 Jim DeRogatis · WBEZ · Sound Opinions
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Movies of 2020 Eric Kohn · IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

One Deep River Mark Knopfler
Aura Reworks Hatis Noit
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
$uccessor Dedekind Cut
Toho Sara 東方沙羅 Toho Sara
amor de encava WEED420
Nope Jordan Peele
The Whole Thing Is Just There Young Jesus
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Prima Donna Vince Staples
Jinpa Pema Tseden
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Radu Jude
Music for Shape-Shifters: Field Recordings from the Amazonian Lowlands, 1981-1985 Wakuénai (Curripaco)
Hard Truths Mike Leigh

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