Year-End Lists

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

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Nick Schager: Daily Beast: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
A.V. Club: The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s
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Full of Hell

Coagulated Bliss
1. Top 40 Albums of 2024: Decibel
2. Top 40 Best Albums Of 2024: mxdwn
Garden of Burning Apparitions
Weeping Choir
1. Top 40 Albums of 2019: Decibel
Trumpeting Ecstasy
1. 20 Best Albums of 2017: Revolver

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Nick Schager · Daily Beast
The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s Billboard
My Favorite Fiction of 2020 Katy Waldman · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Albums of 2024 Adrian Thrills · Daily Mail
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s A.V. Club
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny Kiran Desai
Titanic Rising Weyes Blood
Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
Nightcrawler Dan Gilroy
The Giverny Document (Single Channel) Ja’Tovia Gary
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Deepa Anappara
Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt
Drumming Up Trouble Alvin Curran
Red Capriccio Blake Williams
La Pivellina Tizza Covi
The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley David Waldstreicher
Un conte de Michel de Montaigne Jean-Marie Straub
Them
Rakshak Bloodywood

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