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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

2014 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Sly Thom Zimny
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
The Sunshine Place
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Idlewild Idlewild
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Liars Sarah Manguso
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Clean Slate
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Diamond Eyes Deftones

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