Year-End Lists

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

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Guardian: The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Jon Caramanica: New York Times: Best Albums of 2024
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The 10 Best Books of 2024: Anna Bonet: The i Paper

2024 Award: The Booker Prize
Fiction 2024: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize
The 30 Best Books of 2024: New York Post
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024: Time
The 10 Best Books of 2024: Washington Post
The Best Books of 2024: Economist
The Best Books of 2024: Vogue

Trending Lists

Best Albums of 2024 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Ten Best Films of 2020 Jonathan Rosenbaum · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Guardian
10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Moana with Sound (1980) Robert J. Flaherty and Frances H. Flaherty
Atom Heart Mother Ali Ahmadzadeh
Songs from the North Soon-Mi Yoo
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
The Terrorizers Edward Yang
Fleabag
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
Azor Andreas Fontana
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Inside Out 2 Kelsey Mann
Mrs. Fletcher
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
The Forgotten Space Allan Sekula and Noël Burch
Manifesto Bernardine Evaristo

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