Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Robert Lloyd: Los Angeles Times: Best TV Shows of 2025
MJ Franklin: Favorite Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Afterglow

(a dog memoir)

by Eileen Myles

Lists

Best Books of 2017: Entropy

Top 20 Books of 2017: Stranger
Favorite Poetry Collections of 2017: Lit Hub
Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2017: Dennis Cooper

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2020 Real Simple
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Favorite Books of 2025 MJ Franklin
Best TV Shows of 2025 Robert Lloyd · Los Angeles Times
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Mr. Bachmann and His Class Maria Speth
Exhibition Joanna Hogg
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Our House on the Hill The Babies
Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
The Square Ruben Östlund
The Other Side of Everything Mila Turajlic
We the People Jill Lepore
Lady Dynamite
Golliwog Billy Woods
XXX Danny Brown
While We’re Young Noah Baumbach
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
20 Feet From Stardom Morgan Neville

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