Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Film Comment: Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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Lists

25 Best TV Shows of 2019: Kelly Lawler: USA Today

Best TV shows of 2019: Hank Stuever: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2020 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
XXX Danny Brown
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Nocturama Bertrand Bonello
Holy Motors Leos Carax
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka

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