Year-End Lists

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

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Lists

The Best Podcasts of 2022: Economist
The 30 Best Podcasts of 2022: Esquire
The Best Podcasts of 2022: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

There Is No Place for Us Brian Goldstone
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Second Comin’ Korallreven
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
XXX Danny Brown
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
Black Box
Black is King Beyoncé
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Wild Houses Colin Barrett
Open City Teju Cole
The Hate U Give George Tillman Jr.
What We Can Know Ian McEwan

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