Year-End Lists

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

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Poppy

Negative Spaces
- 50 Best Albums of 2024: Alternative Press
Zig
1. 30 Best Albums of 2023: Revolver
2. Top 50 Albums of 2023: Dork
EAT (NXT Soundtrack)
1. 25 Best Albums of 2021: Revolver
I Disagree
- The Best in 2020 Music: Steve Erickson: GCN
- Best Albums of 2020: AllMusic

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Dublin Literary Award
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
XXX Danny Brown
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson
Magic, Alive! McKinley Dixon
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
Holy Motors Leos Carax
Nocturama Bertrand Bonello
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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