Year-End Lists

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

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Our 23 Favorite LGBTQ+ Movies of 2023: Them

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Rock N Roll Consciousness Thurston Moore
Mt. Marci Roc Marciano
Room for the Moon Kate NV
XXX Danny Brown
hexed! aya
Before We Vanish Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Sugar Honey Iced Tea Latto
Aux Pieds de la Nuit Nyx Nott
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
That Was Something Dan Callahan

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