Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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memoryland
1. Best Albums of 2021: Uproxx: Uproxx Music Critics Poll
Night Bus 4 : Memory of Night Bus
1. Favorite Albums of 2019: Gorilla vs. Bear
On Vacation
1. 60 Favorite Albums of 2016: Gorilla vs. Bear
Outside
1. 40 Favorite Albums of 2013: Gorilla vs. Bear
Exercises
1. 100 Favourite Albums of 2012: Drowned in Sound

Trending Lists

50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Get Out Jordan Peele
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
CODA Sian Heder
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Hey Country Queen Mackenzie Carpenter
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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