Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
more

Vanessa Hua

Forbidden City
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022: Washington Post
A River of Stars
1. Best Books of 2018: Entropy
- 100 Notable Books of 2018: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard

Trending Works

Moderation Elaine Castillo
Contra Vampire Weekend
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sinners Ryan Coogler
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Frontrunner Frontperson
hexed! aya
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Weapons Zach Cregger
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
The Outrun Nora Fingscheidt

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