Year-End Lists

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

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Loudwire: The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2024
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
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American Estrangement

by Saïd Sayrafiezadeh

Lists

Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2017 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Fiction of 2025 Maria Crawford · Financial Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Scratch & Win
The Serpent
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
The English Hugo Blick
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Who Is Government? Michael Lewis
All the Cities of the North Dane Komljen
The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
The Chronology of Water Kristen Stewart
The House That Jack Built Lars von Trier
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sex Education

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