Year-End Lists

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

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Albums of the Year 2025
Albums of the Year 2024
Albums of the Year 2023
Albums of the Year 2022
Albums of the Year 2021

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Idlewild Idlewild
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Oracle Cate Marvin
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sly Thom Zimny
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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