Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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- The 18 Best Novels of 2021: Powell's Books

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The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Movies Of 2021 Uproxx
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

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Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Clean Slate
Sly Thom Zimny
Idlewild Idlewild
The Sunshine Place
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Liars Sarah Manguso
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Oracle Cate Marvin
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Francesca David Murray Quartet

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