Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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40 Favorite Albums of 2015: Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Sound Opinions

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10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021 Entertainment Weekly
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Albums of 2024 Obscure Sound
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
Records of the Year 2011 Rise

Trending Works

This Is the Sonics The Sonics
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
From Scratch
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Rakshak Bloodywood
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Whiplash Damien Chazelle
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes

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