Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

Best Books of 2018: Entropy
Best Fiction Of 2018: Claire Fallon: HuffPost
Best Books of 2018: BuzzFeed

20 Best Books of 2018: Boston.com
100 Recommended Books of 2018: San Francisco Chronicle
100 Notable Books of 2018: New York Times: New York Times
Best Books Of 2018: Kristin Iversen: Nylon
Favorite Books of 2018: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 Slant
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Guardian
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 Consequence
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

Trending Works

Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller
Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
Mrs. Fletcher
The Forgotten Space Allan Sekula and Noël Burch
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
Fleabag
Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty
Manifesto Bernardine Evaristo
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Songs from the North Soon-Mi Yoo
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
Doga Juana Molina

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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