Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
David Fear: Rolling Stone: The 20 Best Movies of 2025
Jonathan Rosenbaum: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2025
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Making Comics

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Lists

Top 25 Books of 2019: Hyperallergic

Best Books of 2019: Michael Silverblatt: KCRW

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Stage Four Touché Amoré
Flesh David Szalay
The Boy Who Played the Harp Dave
The Rabbit Hutch Tess Gunty
Dept. Q
KicK iii Arca
The Genius Myth Helen Lewis
KICK ii Arca
Empire of AI Karen Hao
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Vortex Gaspar Noé
XXX Danny Brown
False Dawn George Selgin

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