Year-End Lists

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

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New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2023
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Albums of the Year 2025
UK Albums of the Year 2024
UK Albums of the Year 2023
UK Albums of the Year 2022
US Albums of the Year 2021
Albums of the Year 2020
Albums of the Year 2019

Trending Lists

Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

mbv My Bloody Valentine
The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder
Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Acid Rap Chance The Rapper
Gangs of Wasseypur Anurag Kashyap
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
Mania Hamza
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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