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
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Davy Kehoe

Short Passing Game
1. Top 100 Albums of 2017: Quietus

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Slow West John Maclean
Second Mansions Le Concorde
I Swear Kirk Jones
Hi Texas
The Long Walk Francis Lawrence
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Traitors Circle Jonathan Freedland
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Face Down in the Garden Tennis
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom

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