Year-End Lists

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

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2024: Guardian

The Best Podcasts of 2024: Economist

Trending Lists

50 Best Albums of 2015 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top Ten Films of 2011 Cinema Scope
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Wide Awake! Parquet Courts
HAGEN Titanic
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Be the Cowboy Mitski
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Tell Me How You Really Feel Courtney Barnett
Joy as an Act of Resistance Idles
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Insecure Men Insecure Men
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Bottle It In Kurt Vile
Utopia Björk
The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies

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