Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
more

Vera

by The Hanseroth Twins

Lists

The Best Albums of 2024: Chris Willman: Variety

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2024 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo

Trending Works

Adults
Top Doll Karen McCarthy Woolf
Invisible Child Andrea Elliott
This Strange Eventful History Claire Messud
The Souvenir Joanna Hogg
Trainwreck Judd Apatow
Universal Language Matthew Rankin
When We Were Birds Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Maps to the Stars David Cronenberg
Common Side Effects
Because the Boss Belongs to Us
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
Call Me by Your Name Luca Guadagnino

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds