Year-End Lists

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

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Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
New York Public Library: Best Books for Adults 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Adventures In Your Own Backyard

by Patrick Watson

Lists

The Top 100 Albums of 2012: Crack Magazine

50 Favorite Albums of 2012: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
A Very English Scandal
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Interview with the Vampire
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Tár Todd Field
Bent by Nature

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