Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Tyehimba Jess

Lists

5 Best Poetry Books of 2016: Library Journal
5 Best Poetry Books of 2016: Publishers Weekly

10 Best Poetry Books of 2016: John Freeman: Boston Globe
23 Favorite Poetry Books of 2016: Dennis Cooper
The 10 Best Poetry Collections of the Decade: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Interview with the Vampire
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Maestro Bradley Cooper
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
A Very English Scandal
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Embedded: Alternate Realities
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Deep Water Adrian Lyne
Anatomy of a Fall Justine Triet
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists

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