Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas

Lists

Favourite Podcasts of 2023: Economist
The Eight Best Podcasts of 2023: WBEZ: Nerdette

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2025 Rolling Stone
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 50 Best Movies of 2023 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Idlewild Idlewild
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
The Sunshine Place
Liars Sarah Manguso
Blue Moon Richard Linklater

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