Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Lists

Top 25 Albums of 2012: BBC: BBC Music
50 Best Albums of 2012: NME

50 Best Albums of 2012: Q

Trending Lists

50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2024 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
28 Years Later Danny Boyle
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Feu Nekfeu
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Sinners Ryan Coogler

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