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
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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The Off-Season

by J. Cole

Lists

The Best Albums of 2021: Complex
Albums of the Year 2021: Clash
The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Billboard

The Best Albums Of 2021: Uproxx

Trending Lists

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024 Washington Post
75 Best Albums of 2016 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024 Guardian
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2022 Marilou Duponchel · Les Inrocks
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 10 Films of 2023 Marilou Duponchel · Les Inrocks
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Boy Who Played the Harp Dave
The Off-Season J. Cole
Our Share of Night Mariana Enriquez
Communion Park Jiha
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman
Sore Thumb Oso Oso
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
XXX Danny Brown
You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing to Go Back To Richmond Fontaine
Joyland Trust
Slow West John Maclean
The Exciting Sounds of Menahan Street Band Menahan Street Band
Looper Rian Johnson

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