Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Fire Will Come

by Oliver Laxe

Lists

Top 20 Movies of 2020: K. Austin Collins: Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2020: Glenn Heath Jr.
10 Best Films of 2019: James Quandt: Artforum

Best Films of 2019: Erika Balsom: Sight & Sound: Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016 Tiny Mix Tapes
50 Favorite Music Releases of 2017 Tiny Mix Tapes
Favorite 50 Albums of 2013 Tiny Mix Tapes
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015 Tiny Mix Tapes
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014 Tiny Mix Tapes
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Favorite 50 Albums of 2012 Tiny Mix Tapes

Trending Works

Not My White Savior Julayne Lee
Le Kov Gwenno
Eno Gary Hustwit
Hijack
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
John & Paul Ian Leslie
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
Dan's Boogie Destroyer
On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock
Catherine Called Birdy Lena Dunham

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