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
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Kate Elizabeth Russell

My Dark Vanessa

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best TV Shows of 2023 Judy Berman · Time
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Idlewild Idlewild
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sly Thom Zimny
Clean Slate
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Liars Sarah Manguso
The Sunshine Place
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker

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