Year-End Lists

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

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Christian Science Monitor: The Top 25 Books for 2025
Alison Herman: Variety: The Best TV Shows of 2023
Sight & Sound: Top 11 Films of 2012
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The Best Poetry Books of 2022: Guardian

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best TV Shows of 2023 Alison Herman · Variety
The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s Billboard
The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

B-Room Dr. Dog
Blackstar David Bowie
Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long Skogen
Synonyms Nadav Lapid
Dark Waters Todd Haynes
Marriage Story Noah Baumbach
Pauline Kael Brian Kellow
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Red Rooms Pascal Plante
Burning Lee Chang-dong
$ad Boyz 4 Life II Junior H
Transit Christian Petzold

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