Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
more

The Fader

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025
The 50 Best Albums of 2024
The 50 Best Albums of 2023
The 50 Best Albums of 2022
The 50 Best Albums of 2021

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

American Prison Shane Bauer
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
Morning Circle Basma al-Sharif
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Pavements Alex Ross Perry
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds