Year-End Lists

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

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Mojo: The 75 Best Albums of 2025
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 Decade: BuzzFeed

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2022 Paste
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
A Real Pain Jesse Eisenberg
Small Axe: Mangrove Steve McQueen
XXX Danny Brown
Afterparties Anthony Veasna So
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
Revenge Coralie Fargeat
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
WTF with Marc Maron Marc Maron
Long Story Short
The Big Bang Theory
Colored Television Danzy Senna

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

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