Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Andrzej Wajda

Lists

Favorite Films of 2017: Scout Tafoya

63 Best Films of 2017: Glenn Kenny

Trending Lists

Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
2011 Award The Booker Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
25 Best Albums of the 2010s Revolver
26 Best Films of 2011 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Be the Cowboy Mitski
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
Presence Steven Soderbergh
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
Impersonator Majical Cloudz
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
Moneyball Bennett Miller
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada

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