Year-End Lists

A hand-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
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Best Books of 2020: Refinery29

Favorite Novels of 2020: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 23 Best TV Shows of 2023 Daily Beast
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Oracle Cate Marvin
Sly Thom Zimny
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Clean Slate
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Liars Sarah Manguso
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
The Sunshine Place
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Idlewild Idlewild
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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