Year-End Lists

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

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Killing Joke

Pylon
MMXII
1. Top 40 Albums of 2012: Decibel
2. 75 Favorite Albums of 2012: Quietus

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

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

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