Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Who They Was

by Gabriel Krauze

Lists

2021 Award: Dylan Thomas Prize
2020 Award: The Booker Prize

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
10 Best Movies of 2025 Odie Henderson · Boston Globe
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post

Trending Works

The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Weapons Zach Cregger
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Wicked Jon M. Chu
XXX Danny Brown
Empire of AI Karen Hao
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Dinner in America Adam Rehmeier
The True Story of Bananagun Bananagun
In The Earth Again Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
Cerulean Salt Waxahatchee
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
Lux Rosalía

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

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