Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The Empathy Exams

by Leslie Jamison

Lists

Best Nonfiction of 2014: Powell's Books
10 Best Books of 2014: Publishers Weekly

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2023 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
This Is Happening LCD Soundsystem
Portal Balu Brigada
Life After Reid Davenport
In Penitence and Ruin Tribunal
Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse Mariah Carey
Crick Professor Matthew Cobb
Dril Official "Mr. Ten Years" Anniversary Collection Dril
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Becoming Cousteau Liz Garbus
What We Spend
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
XXX Danny Brown

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