Year-End Lists

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

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Cosmic Vibrations
- 31 Favorite Albums of 2015: Dennis Cooper

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 15 Films of 2013 Matt Singer · The Dissolve
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
Wild Houses Colin Barrett
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Call Me by Your Name Luca Guadagnino
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Adults
When We Were Birds Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
The Hate U Give George Tillman Jr.
Bad Mexican, Bad American José Hernández Díaz
Second Comin’ Korallreven
XXX Danny Brown
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Black Box

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