Year-End Lists

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

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Barack Obama: Favorite Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 15 Best TV Shows of 2025
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Five Best Fiction Works of 2023 Los Angeles Times
The 5 Best Fiction Books of 2022 Los Angeles Times
The 5 Best Novels of 2021 Los Angeles Times

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Nonfiction 2025 National Book Award
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Billboard
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 A.V. Club
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2025 Rolling Stone
50 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2022 Loudwire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

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The Brutalist Brady Corbet
The Duke of Burgundy Peter Strickland
Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski
The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen
Train Again Peter Tscherkassky
The Temple Woods Gang Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The House That Jack Built Lars von Trier
Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl Carrie Brownstein
Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression Max Good
Bottoms Emma Seligman
Fifty Shades of Grey Sam Taylor-Johnson
Stories from the Chestnut Woods Gregor Božič

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