Year-End Lists

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

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Top 20 Albums of 2022 NPR · NPR Music
My Thirty Favorite Albums of 2020 New Yorker

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Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Total S**t! Shit & Shine
Moonlight Barry Jenkins
Liberation Day George Saunders
The Lowdown
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Some Kind of Peace Ólafur Arnalds
Broker Hirokazu Kore-eda
Ex Machina Alex Garland
Mad God Phil Tippett
Savage Hills Ballroom Youth Lagoon
Connie Connie Chung
XXX Danny Brown
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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