Year-End Lists

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

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Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2025
A.V. Club: The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025
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Best Southern Albums of 2025: Bitter Southerner

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Billboard
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 A.V. Club
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
50 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2022 Loudwire
Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama
Nonfiction 2025 National Book Award
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Bottoms Emma Seligman
The Duke of Burgundy Peter Strickland
Train Again Peter Tscherkassky
Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression Max Good
child in a winter house brightening Abigail Zimmer
The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen
House of Hummingbird Kim Bora
The Temple Woods Gang Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
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The House That Jack Built Lars von Trier
Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl Carrie Brownstein
Stories from the Chestnut Woods Gregor Božič
Fifty Shades of Grey Sam Taylor-Johnson
Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski

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