Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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1. 10 Best Films of 2016: John Waters: Artforum
2. Top Ten Films of 2016: Dan Callahan: RogerEbert.com

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
2011 Award The Booker Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
25 Best Albums of the 2010s Revolver
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
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 Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop

Trending Works

Run the Jewels Run the Jewels
Impersonator Majical Cloudz
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Be the Cowboy Mitski
A Little Life Hanya Yanagihara
Presence Steven Soderbergh
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
Moneyball Bennett Miller

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