Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Clarisse Loughrey: Independent: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Albums of 2022 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 20 Books of 2017 Time

Trending Works

Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... Steven Pinker
Embers of the Hands Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
House of Huawei Eva Dou
The Long Walk Francis Lawrence
Le Kov Gwenno
Tearless Amnesia Scanner
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
Eno Gary Hustwit
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove Barbara Demick
Fargo

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