Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
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Amir ElSaffar and Rivers of Sound

The Other Shore
- Top 10 Albums of 2021: Carl Wilson: Slate

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Top Doll Karen McCarthy Woolf
When We Were Birds Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Maps to the Stars David Cronenberg
Adults
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
Trainwreck Judd Apatow
Universal Language Matthew Rankin
The Souvenir Joanna Hogg
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
This Strange Eventful History Claire Messud
Because the Boss Belongs to Us
Nomadland Chloé Zhao
James Percival Everett
Invisible Child Andrea Elliott

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