Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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Béla Fleck

My Bluegrass Heart
- 20 Best Albums of 2021: Glide

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win

Trending Works

Liars Sarah Manguso
Sly Thom Zimny
Idlewild Idlewild
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Clean Slate

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