Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

Best Books of 2018: Entropy

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2024 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
The Best TV Shows & Mini-Series of the Decade The Playlist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
From Ground Zero
hexed! aya
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman
Looper Rian Johnson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Getting Killed Geese
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar

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