Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2024
Elisa Gabbert: New York Times: The Best Poetry of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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by Teju Cole

Lists

Top 20 Books of 2017: Time
Best Books of 2017: Entropy

Trending Lists

The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 30 Best TV Shows of 2021 Paste
50 Best Albums of 2014 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Poetry of 2025 Elisa Gabbert · New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Poetry Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll

Trending Works

Narcos: Mexico
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Blade Runner 2049 Denis Villeneuve
Thelma Joachim Trier
Fleabag
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn Radu Jude
XXX Danny Brown
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
May December Todd Haynes
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
The Unknown Man of Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy
Last Summer Catherine Breillat

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