Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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State of Paradise

by Laura van den Berg

Lists

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024: Time
21 Best Books of 2024: Vanity Fair

Trending Lists

80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
The Lowdown
Keeper of the Shepherd Hannah Frances
The Passenger Cormac McCarthy
The Haunted Man Bat for Lashes
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Vince Staples Vince Staples
Broker Hirokazu Kore-eda
Eddington Ari Aster
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Connie Connie Chung
Wixiw Liars
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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

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