Year-End Lists

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

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A.V. Club: The 25 Best Films of 2024
Paste: The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Akwaeke Emezi

Lists

Best Books of 2018: BuzzFeed
Best Books of 2018: Entropy

Fiction 2019: Women's Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018: New York Times: New York Times
Best Books of 2018: Katy Waldman: New Yorker
Best Books of 2018: Bustle
Favorite Books of 2018: Lit Hub
2018 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness
The 24 Best Books of the 2010s: BuzzFeed

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2019 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Albums of the Year 2025 Quietus
The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s Billboard
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024 Washington Post
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
20 Best Movies of 2012 Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2023 Jonathan Rosenbaum · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino
Pacifiction Albert Serra
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Chronology of Water Kristen Stewart
Nope Jordan Peele
Crimes of the Future David Cronenberg
Sex Education
Jackass Forever Jeff Tremaine
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt
The English Hugo Blick
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Barbie Greta Gerwig

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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