Year-End Lists

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

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Favorite Music of 2022 NPR · NPR Music
Top 21 Albums of 2017 NPR · NPR Music
Top 10 Albums of 2011 New York Times

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Getting Killed Geese
Highway Thirteen Fiona McFarlane
Jen Cloher Jen Cloher
The CIA Book Club Charlie English
Allies at War Tim Bouverie
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Arctic Passages Kieran Mulvaney
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Strange Hearts Secret Cities
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue

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