Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Owen Gleiberman: Variety: The Best Movies of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
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Lists

The 13 Best Books of 2018: Harper’s Bazaar

100 Notable Books of 2019: New York Times: New York Times
50 of the Best Feminist Books of 2018: Autostraddle
100 Recommended Books of 2018: San Francisco Chronicle
Best Books of 2018: Bustle
100 Notable Books of 2018: Washington Post
Favorite Books of 2018: Barack Obama
20 Best Books of 2018: Boston.com

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Complex
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 30 Best TV Shows of 2024 Paste
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
25 Best TV Shows of 2018 Slant
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
21 Best TV Shows of 2016 Alan Sepinwall · Uproxx
The Best TV Shows of 2019 Complex
Top 20 TV Shows of 2019 Decider
Best TV Shows of 2022 BuzzFeed
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Paste

Trending Works

I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
Anime, Trauma and Divorce Open Mike Eagle
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Trois, Deux, Un Juniore
Fin John Talabot
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
Christopher Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert
Rakshak Bloodywood
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
Petite Maman Céline Sciamma
Fetch the Bolt Cutters Fiona Apple

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