Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
Adam Morgan: Esquire: The 35 Best Books of 2025
Owen Gleiberman: Variety: The Best Movies of 2025
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The Nordic Theory of Everything

In Search of a Better Life

by Anu Partanen

Lists

Best Nonfiction of 2016: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
Best Movies of 2020 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Records of 2024 Resident Advisor
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2022 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Movies of 2025 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
The Best Movies of 2025 Ty Burr
Best Movies of 2020 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 35 Best Books of 2025 Adam Morgan · Esquire
The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Melancholia Lars von Trier
It's a Sin
I'm Your Woman Julia Hart
Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood
An Oral History of Atlantis Ed Park
Marriage Story Noah Baumbach
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Onania Club Tom Six
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
The Unknown Man of Shandigor Jean-Louis Roy
Live Forever Bartees Strange
Two Years at Sea Ben Rivers
The Other Side of Everything Mila Turajlic
The Disintegrations Alistair McCartney

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