Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Gray Matters

A Biography of Brain Surgery

by Theodore H. Schwartz

Appears on one list

The Best Books of 2024: Economist

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 100 Albums of 2014 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Movies of 2019 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2011 Fly
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Cry Sugar Hudson Mohawke
MASSEDUCTION St. Vincent
Cerulean Salt Waxahatchee
Tip of the Sphere Cass McCombs
When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Billie Eilish
On the Beach at Night Alone Hong Sang-soo
If Orange Was a Place Tems
Into It with Sam Sanders
Blackstar David Bowie
Kairos Jenny Erpenbeck
Counter-Intelligence Robert Hannigan
Devil Is Fine Zeal & Ardor
One Dubstar
Every Open Eye Chvrches

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