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
Rolling Stone: 10 Best Podcasts of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Best Albums of 2024
Best Albums of 2023
Best of 2021
Best Albums of 2020
Best Albums of 2018
70 Best Albums of 2017
48 Best Albums of 2016
55 Best Albums of 2015
50 Best Albums of 2014
50 Best Albums of 2013
50 Best Albums of 2012
Favorite Rock Albums of 2011

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
10 Best Podcasts of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The 30 Best Films of 2023 Little White Lies
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2023 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Long Story Short
Silver Eye Goldfrapp
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
How to Have Sex Molly Manning Walker
XXX Danny Brown
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Family Portrait Ross from Friends
The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
We Do Not Part Han Kang
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
I'm Still Here Walter Salles

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