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
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Best 50 Books of 2017: Joseph Salvatore: Brooklyn Rail

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: The Podcast
XXX Danny Brown
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Mister Universo Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
Dìdi Sean Wang
Eddington Ari Aster
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Tár Todd Field
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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