Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

25 Favourite Albums of 2025
15 Favourite Albums of 2018
100 Favourite Albums of 2017
16 Favourite Albums of 2016
100 Favourite Albums of 2015
51 Favourite Albums of 2014
100 Favourite Albums of 2012
Favourite Albums of 2011

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2023 Paste
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2023 Marilou Duponchel · Les Inrocks
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2022 Marilou Duponchel · Les Inrocks
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Books of 2019 Michael Silverblatt · KCRW

Trending Works

Eusexua FKA twigs
Sinners Ryan Coogler
You Can’t Go Back If There’s Nothing to Go Back To Richmond Fontaine
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman
Our Share of Night Mariana Enriquez
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Tomas Alfredson
Sore Thumb Oso Oso
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here Friko
The world within our bedrooms Drug Store Romeos
Between the Times and the Tides Lee Ranaldo
Writers & Lovers Lily King
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson

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