Year-End Lists

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

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The 50 Best TV Shows of 2023: Guardian

Best TV Shows of 2025: Kelly Lawler: USA Today
The Best Television Shows of 2023: Economist

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The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

You Didn't See Nothin
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
XXX Danny Brown
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Dìdi Sean Wang
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Getting Killed Geese
Flesh David Szalay
My Adventures with Superman
In the Dark
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Here Bas Devos

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