Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
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Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Boston Globe
40 Favorite Albums of My 2024: Brad Luen

The Best Albums of 2024: David Hajdu: The Nation

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2015 Complex
Top 50 Albums of 2021 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau

Trending Works

The Pachinko Parlour Elisa Shua Dusapin
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
I Inside the Old Year Dying PJ Harvey
I Miss You When I Blink Mary Laura Philpott
The Art of Uncertainty David Spiegelhalter
Good Girl Aria Aber
Autumn Nathaniel Dorsky
Metallic Life Review Matmos
Stochastic Drift Barker
The Stardust Grail Yume Kitasei
Fargo
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Snack Shack Adam Carter Rehmeier
Smoke Dan Vyleta

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