Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Seven Times Down Eight Times Up
1. The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2020: Hip Hop Golden Age
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1. Albums of the Year 2011: Quietus

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best International TV Shows of 2024 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Dìdi Sean Wang
You Didn't See Nothin
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
Tár Todd Field
XXX Danny Brown
In the Dark
Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
Eddington Ari Aster
Civil War Alex Garland
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Sicario Denis Villeneuve
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar

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