Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Top 20 Albums of 2023: Spectrum Culture
75 Best Albums of 2023: Mojo

The 50 Best Albums of 2023: NPR: NPR Music

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Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021 Entertainment Weekly
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

This Is the Sonics The Sonics
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
More Love, Less Ego Wizkid
Rakshak Bloodywood
Whiplash Damien Chazelle
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill

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