Year-End Lists

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

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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McCartney: A Life in Lyrics

Lists

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2023: Eliana Dockterman: Time

Best Podcasts of 2023: Fiona Sturges: Financial Times

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Long Story Short
Live In Paris Lolina
The Devil You Know The Coathangers
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
God Said No Omar Apollo
House and Land House and Land
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
No Matter Jana Prikryl
The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Noble Art Of Self Destruction Holding Absence
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
XXX Danny Brown

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