Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Collected Poems

1950-2012

by Adrienne Rich

Lists

11 Best Poetry Books of 2016: BuzzFeed

8 Best Poetry Books of 2016: Dan Chiasson: New Yorker

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Favorite Books of 2019 Smithsonian
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

American Eden Victoria Johnson
Common Side Effects
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Lowdown
American Prison Shane Bauer
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho

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