Year-End Lists

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

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Complex: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
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60 Favorite Albums of 2016: Gorilla vs. Bear

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2018 Q
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Complex
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Brat Charli XCX
Mother Emanuel Kevin Sack
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Man's Best Friend Sabrina Carpenter
Known and Strange Things Teju Cole
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes

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