Year-End Lists

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

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

The 20 Most Essential Podcasts of 2025: Lauren Passell: Lifehacker
The Best Podcasts of 2024: Economist

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
I Swear Kirk Jones
Hi Texas
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
American Crime Story
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Is a River Alive? Robert Macfarlane
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Alpha Julia Ducournau

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