Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Lauren Passell: Lifehacker: The 20 Most Essential Podcasts of 2025
Emilie Hanskamp: Top Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Kacy Hill

Simple, Sweet, and Smiling
1. The 100 Best Albums of 2021: Albumism

Trending Lists

50 Best Albums of 2014 Complex
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 20 Most Essential Podcasts of 2025 Lauren Passell · Lifehacker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Beginners Mike Mills
In the Dark
The Blackmailer's Guide to Love Marian Thurm
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Twilight Zone Nona Fernández
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
Destroyer of Light Jennifer Marie Brissett
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83
XXX Danny Brown
Holy Hell Architects
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sorry I Haven't Called Vagabon
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
Spotlight: Snitch City

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