Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Alan Sepinwall: Rolling Stone: The 20 Best TV Shows of 2022
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2019
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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The Nordic Theory of Everything

In Search of a Better Life

by Anu Partanen

Appears on one list

Best Nonfiction of 2016: Powell's Books

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 18 Best Novels of 2024 Sunday Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Guardian
The 20 Best TV Shows of 2022 Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Dancing While Falling Quantic
Fleabag
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The Wheel of Time
Underneath the Pine Toro y Moi
Sugar & Spice Hatchie
Grim Town SOAK
Take It, It's Yours Katy Goodman & Greta Morgan
Graves Without a Name Rithy Panh
Paradise Slow Club
Martin Eden Pietro Marcello
Floating Features La Luz
Collapse Aphex Twin

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