Year-End Lists

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

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2023
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Our Ancestors Were Messy

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The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025: Benjamin Cannon: Atlantic

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Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Greatest Albums of the 2010s NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Alissa Wilkinson · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Incident in a Ghostland Pascal Laugier
Chronology Qasim Naqv
Bent Sørensen: St Matthew Passion The Norwegian Soloists' Choir / Ensemble Allegria / Grete Pedersen
Could Have Done Anything Charlotte Cornfield
Lafandar Heems & Lapgan
Predators David Osit
Paradise Slow Club
Removal Acts Erin Marie Lynch
Blackstar David Bowie
Stravinsky: Orchestral Works Gustavo Gimeno and Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Prima Donna Vince Staples
She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She Chelsea Wolfe

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