Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Owen Gleiberman: Variety: The Best Movies of 2025
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Jerald Walker

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
- Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020: Lit Hub
- Nonfiction 2020: National Book Award

Trending Lists

Best TV Shows of 2022 BuzzFeed
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Paste
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Complex
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best TV Shows of 2019 Complex
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
25 Best TV Shows of 2018 Slant
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
21 Best TV Shows of 2016 Alan Sepinwall · Uproxx
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 20 TV Shows of 2019 Decider

Trending Works

Rakshak Bloodywood
Black Bag Steven Soderbergh
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Anime, Trauma and Divorce Open Mike Eagle
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Born to Die Lana Del Rey
The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson
Petite Maman Céline Sciamma
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Christopher Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
Trois, Deux, Un Juniore

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