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
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force

by Tzompantli

Lists

Top 40 Albums of 2024: Decibel

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Movies of 2022 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
The Ice Tower Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Getting Killed Geese
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The MANIAC Benjamin Labatut
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
On Falling Laura Carreira
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Saint Omer Alice Diop
Weapons Zach Cregger
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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