Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Big Wave Riders

Endless Summer
1. Top 50 Albums of 2016: Austin Town Hall
Life Less Ordinary
1. Top 100 Albums of 2012: Austin Town Hall

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

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

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