Year-End Lists

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

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Jim DeRogatis: WBEZ: Top 40 Albums of 2012
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: 27 Best Movies of 2012
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Best Books of 2025
Best Books of 2024
12 of the Best Poetry Collections from 2023 Connie Pan
Best Books of 2023
10 of the Best Poetry Collections of 2022 Connie Pan
Best Poetry of 2018
Best Books of 2017

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
27 Best Movies of 2012 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2020 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 40 Albums of 2012 Jim DeRogatis · WBEZ · Sound Opinions
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2011 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s Billboard

Trending Works

Torch Song Radiator Hospital
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
amor de encava WEED420
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
The Whole Thing Is Just There Young Jesus
Toho Sara 東方沙羅 Toho Sara
$uccessor Dedekind Cut
Abandon All Life Nails
Mannequin Pussy Mannequin Pussy
Jinpa Pema Tseden
The Highwomen The Highwomen
Alicia Alicia Keys
Bodies and Control and Money and Power Priests
Blackstar David Bowie

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