Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2024
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Dear Memory

Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief

by Victoria Chang

Lists

Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 Consequence
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 Slant
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Albums of 2024 Jon Pareles · New York Times

Trending Works

Not Here/Not Now Swans
The Breaker Little Big Town
Doga Juana Molina
Instant Life Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy, Andrew Kim
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
The Endless Shimmering And So I Watch You From Afar
Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
Patriot
Stranger Things
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
In the Summers Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio
Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty

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