Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
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Lucy Dacus

Forever Is a Feeling
- The Best Music of 2025: Carl Wilson: Slate
- 50 Best Albums of 2025: Alternative Press
Home Video
Historian
No Burden
- 100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
100 Notable Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Albums of 2025 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Hit Man Richard Linklater
Severance
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
Enys Men Mark Jenkin
Empty Netters
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
GNX Kendrick Lamar
Maria Pablo Larraín
La chimera Alice Rohrwacher
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Bikeriders Jeff Nichols
Fargo
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski

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