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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Jesse Ball

Lists

Best Books Of 2018: Kristin Iversen: Nylon
Best Fiction of 2018: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Passages Ira Sachs
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
XXX Danny Brown
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Teenage Matt Wolf
The Galleons Rick Barot
Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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