Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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by Lincoln Michel

Lists

The Best Books of 2025: Constance Grady: Vox
The 35 Best Books of 2025: Adam Morgan: Esquire

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 33 Best Podcasts of 2019 Wired UK
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Country Music Albums of 2025 Holler

Trending Works

Promises Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
The Sisters Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Her Spike Jonze
Hit Man Richard Linklater
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Pig Michael Sarnoski
I Miss You When I Blink Mary Laura Philpott
Fargo
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) Jesse Q. Sutanto
Pluribus
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Flesh David Szalay
Choke Enough Oklou
Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney

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