Year-End Lists

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

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
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Of the Near and Far

by Patricia Brennan

Lists

Top 10 Albums of 2025: Nate Chinen: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 55 Best TV Shows of the 2010s BuzzFeed
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Le Kov Gwenno
American: An Odyssey to 1947 Danny Wu
Interior Live Oak Cass McCombs
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry
One Year: 1977
Speak To Me Julian Lage
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
1989 Taylor Swift
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
House of Huawei Eva Dou

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