Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Odie Henderson: Boston Globe: 10 Best Movies of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
more

Shrinking Violets

The Secret Life of Shyness

by Joe Moran

Lists

Favorite Books of 2017: Alex Balk: Awl

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
10 Best Movies of 2025 Odie Henderson · Boston Globe
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Gentle Grip Public Practice
I'm Your Empress Of Empress Of
XXX Danny Brown
Empire of AI Karen Hao
In The Earth Again Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
Cody Joyce Manor
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
All Consuming Ruby Tandoh
All That Reckoning Cowboy Junkies
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Beanpole Kantemir Balagov
The Candle And The Flame Robert Forster
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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