Year-End Lists

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

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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by Michael Longley

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The 5 Best Poetry Collections of 2022: Troy Jollimore: Washington Post

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The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
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
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Let's Rock The Black Keys
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Eternity, In Your Arms Creeper
Middle Jesse Welles
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
Channel Orange Frank Ocean
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Year of the Snitch Death Grips
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Avatar: Fire and Ash James Cameron

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