Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
more

Carolina Chocolate Drops

Leaving Eden
1. 75 Best Albums of 2012: PopMatters
2. Top 25 Albums of 2012: Engine 145

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Dublin Literary Award
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

A Moment in the Sun John Sayles
Dope Thief
Her Spike Jonze
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Horse Money Pedro Costa
Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller
Warfare Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Buck Cindy Meehl
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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