Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Helen DeWitt

The English Understand Wool
- The 10 Best Books of 2022: Dan Kois: Slate
Some Trick
- 100 Recommended Books of 2018: San Francisco Chronicle

Trending Lists

50 Best Albums of 2015 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top Ten Films of 2011 Cinema Scope
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Wide Awake! Parquet Courts
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Arctic Monkeys
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Tell Me How You Really Feel Courtney Barnett
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Be the Cowboy Mitski
Joy as an Act of Resistance Idles
Insecure Men Insecure Men
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Utopia Björk
Bottle It In Kurt Vile
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies

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