Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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- The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Josh Terry
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- The 60 Best Albums of 2022: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Albums of 2025 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
La 167 Farruko
Mother Emanuel Kevin Sack
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
Death Farm Carl Hauck
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
Severance
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
Known and Strange Things Teju Cole

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