Year-End Lists

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

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Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
New Statesman: TV Shows of the Year 2025
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Lists

Top Ten Films of 2020: Cinema Scope
Top 10 Films of 2020: Dennis Lim: Film Society of Lincoln Center

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
TV Shows of the Year 2025 New Statesman
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Rolling Stone
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Getting Killed Geese
Renaissance Beyoncé
Gasp Seth Graham
Brat Charli XCX
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Middle Jesse Welles
hexed! aya
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Yeezus Kanye West
Treats Sleigh Bells
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall

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