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
Inkoo Kang: New Yorker: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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Too Beautiful to Work
1. Top 25 Albums of 2011: Pinpoint Music

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
We the People Jill Lepore
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke

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