Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
more

The Paranoid Style

The Interrogator
For Executive Meeting
1. Dean's List 2022: Robert Christgau
A Goddamn Impossible Way of Life
1. Dean's List 2019: Robert Christgau
Rock and Roll Just Can't Recall + 3
1. Dean's List 2018: Robert Christgau
Underworld USA
1. Dean's List 2017: Robert Christgau

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Sly Thom Zimny
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
The Sunshine Place
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Idlewild Idlewild
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Clean Slate

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