Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Don Winslow

City on Fire
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022: Washington Post
The Cartel
- Best Fiction Books of 2015: Powell's Books
- Top Ten Books of 2015: Chicago Public Library

Trending Lists

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Found Sound Faded
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
Crick Professor Matthew Cobb
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Adolescence
Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
XXX Danny Brown
Paper Girl Beth Macy
Big Time Angel Olsen
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Suspicious Minds
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates

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