Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Elizabeth McCracken

Lists

Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews
The Best Books of 2021: Patrick Rapa: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Fiction 2021: National Book Award

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2014 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Needs Continuum Karen Gwyer
The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Museum Music Edward Skeletrix
Dead Man’s Wire Gus Van Sant
U R HERE Honesty
Bo Burnham: Inside Bo Burnham
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
Too Much
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
Adolescence
Paper Girl Beth Macy
Big Time Angel Olsen

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