Year-End Lists

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

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Mojo: The 75 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Scoundrel
1. The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022: Esquire
2. The Best Books of 2022: Esquire
The Real Lolita
1. Best Books of 2018: BuzzFeed

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2022 Paste
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top Ten Films of 2011 Cinema Scope
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Small Axe: Mangrove Steve McQueen
The Big Bang Theory
Utopia Björk
Wide Awake! Parquet Courts
XXX Danny Brown
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
Afterparties Anthony Veasna So
Joy as an Act of Resistance Idles
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Arctic Monkeys
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Be the Cowboy Mitski
WTF with Marc Maron Marc Maron
Bottle It In Kurt Vile
Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan

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