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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Dreamer
Weighing of the Heart
1. 50 Best Albums of 2017: Fact
- 27 Albums That Made Our 2017: gal-dem

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Favorite Novels of 2021 Electric Lit
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Diamond Eyes Deftones
Idlewild Idlewild
The Sunshine Place
Clean Slate
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Oracle Cate Marvin
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Liars Sarah Manguso
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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