Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Julia

A Retelling of George Orwell's 1984

by Sandra Newman

Lists

Five Best Fiction Works of 2023: Bethanne Patrick: Los Angeles Times

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
The Sunshine Place
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Idlewild Idlewild
Liars Sarah Manguso
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Clean Slate
Sly Thom Zimny
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker

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