Year-End Lists

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

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Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Best Films of 2021: Steve Erickson: GCN
Top 25 Films of 2021: In Review Online

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Top 50 Albums Of 2025 Still Listening
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

The Descendants Alexander Payne
We Need to Talk About Kevin Lynne Ramsay
Take Shelter Jeff Nichols
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters
The Future Miranda July
Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
Drive Nicolas Winding Refn
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
Margaret Kenneth Lonergan
Hugo Martin Scorsese
Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog
Weekend Andrew Haigh
The Interrupters Steve James

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