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
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Best TV of 2018: Robert Lloyd: Los Angeles Times

My Not-Top-Ten Television List: Emily Nussbaum: New Yorker

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The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 18 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2024 Them
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Albums of 2025 AllMusic
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Found Sound Faded
Music for a New Society/M:FANS John Cale
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Be Water Bao Nguyen
Confrere Poison Ruïn
At Fargrounds Jacken Elswyth
Crick Professor Matthew Cobb
More Love, Less Ego Wizkid
Viagr Aboys Viagra Boys
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
Bo Burnham: Inside Bo Burnham
Too Much
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
Mark William Lewis mark william lewis

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