Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Craig Jenkins: New York: The Best Albums of 2025
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by Kelly Lee Owens

Lists

Favorite Albums Of 2024: Steven Hyden: Uproxx
The Best Albums of 2024: The Forty-Five
The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2024: The Fader
Albums of the Year 2024: Clash
The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters

The Best Albums of 2024: Uproxx
Top 100 Albums of 2024: Under the Radar

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Albums of 2025 Craig Jenkins · New York · Vulture
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2023 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Transform Me Then Into a Fish Martin Carthy
False Dawn George Selgin
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
LOL: Last One Laughing UK
Resurrection Bi Gan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The CIA Book Club Charlie English
Monkey Man Dev Patel
All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade Of Monsters and Men
Li’l Quinquin Bruno Dumont
Weapons Zach Cregger
The Pachinko Parlour Elisa Shua Dusapin
Chokepoints Edward Fishman

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