Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Ann Powers: NPR: Top 10 Albums of 2021
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2024
more

Real Life

An Installation

by Julie Carr

Appears on two lists

Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2018: Entropy

5 Best Poetry Books of 2018: Publishers Weekly

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Albums of 2021 Ann Powers · NPR · NPR Music
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2018 Billboard
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Pairing Casey McQuiston
Gloss Drop Battles
Fleabag
Joy'All Jenny Lewis
This Is What It Feels Like Gracie Abrams
Small Mercies Dennis Lehane
L’un n’empêche pas l’autre Brigitte Fontaine
Golden Sings That Have Been Sung Ryley Walker
Beloved Christophe Honoré
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Konkylie When Saints Go Machine
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
April Sara Nicholson

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds