Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
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by Monica Youn

Lists

11 Best Poetry Books of 2016: BuzzFeed

5 Best Poetry Collections of 2016: Elizabeth Lund: Washington Post
10 Best Poetry Books of 2016: David Orr: New York Times
Poetry 2016: National Book Award

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Urchin Harris Dickinson
Snap Judgment: A Tiny Plot
Spotlight: Snitch City
Resurrection Bi Gan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The White Lotus, season 2 Mike White
The Blackmailer's Guide to Love Marian Thurm
Embedded: Alternate Realities
Parasite Bong Joon-ho
Deep Water Adrian Lyne
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
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