Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Morgan Neville

Lists

The Best 15 Films of 2024: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win

Trending Lists

50 Favorite Music Releases of 2017 Tiny Mix Tapes
51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016 Tiny Mix Tapes
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015 Tiny Mix Tapes
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014 Tiny Mix Tapes
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Favorite 50 Albums of 2013 Tiny Mix Tapes
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Favorite 50 Albums of 2012 Tiny Mix Tapes
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
John & Paul Ian Leslie
Catherine Called Birdy Lena Dunham
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
La 167 Farruko
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Death Farm Carl Hauck
Hijack
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
Le Kov Gwenno
On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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