Year-End Lists

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

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Top 25 Albums of 2023: Magnet
Top 40 Best Albums Of 2023: mxdwn

Trending Lists

25 Best Albums of the 2010s Revolver
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2011 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
Best Albums of 2020 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
26 Best Films of 2011 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork

Trending Works

Reflektor Arcade Fire
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
Impersonator Majical Cloudz
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
The Tiger’s Wife Téa Obreht
Presence Steven Soderbergh
Moneyball Bennett Miller
Black Bag Steven Soderbergh
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
Be the Cowboy Mitski

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