Year-End Lists

A hand-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
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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The Hard Crowd

Essays 2000-2020

by Rachel Kushner

Lists

15 Favorite Books of 2021: A.V. Club
Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 20 Best TV Shows of 2023 Slant
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2022 Paste
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
The Big Bang Theory
I’m With You Red Hot Chili Peppers
A Moment in the Sun John Sayles
Colored Television Danzy Senna
Got to Be Tough Toots and the Maytals
Workaround Beatrice Dillon
The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Long Story Short
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
Small Axe: Mangrove Steve McQueen
XXX Danny Brown

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