Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Scott Tobias: The Reveal: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Paperbacks from Hell

The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction

by Grady Hendrix

Lists

24 Favorite Books of 2017: A.V. Club

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025 Entertainment Weekly
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Scott Tobias · The Reveal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s A.V. Club
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2013 Mojo

Trending Works

Rectify
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
Believable: The Coco Berthmann Story
Sunbather Deafheaven
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Companion Drew Hancock
The Wild Goose Lake Diao Yinan
The Great Beauty Paolo Sorrentino
Things Take Time, Take Time Courtney Barnett
The Other Story Avi Nesher
Mob Psycho 100
So Beautiful or So What Paul Simon
Booksmart Olivia Wilde
Deep State Karen Mirza and Brad Butler

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