Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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Days of Distraction

by Alexandra Chang

Lists

Best Books of 2020: Refinery29

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020: Time
50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen

Trending Works

Sly Thom Zimny
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Clean Slate
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Oracle Cate Marvin
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
The Sunshine Place
Liars Sarah Manguso
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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