Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Mojo: The 75 Best Albums of 2025
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Christian Science Monitor

Lists

The Top 25 Books for 2025
Best Fiction Reads of 2018
30 Best Books of 2017

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2022 Paste
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
Afterparties Anthony Veasna So
XXX Danny Brown
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Arctic Monkeys
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
Joy as an Act of Resistance Idles
WTF with Marc Maron Marc Maron
Be the Cowboy Mitski
Small Axe: Mangrove Steve McQueen
The Big Bang Theory
Bottle It In Kurt Vile
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Utopia Björk
Wide Awake! Parquet Courts

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