Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Alan Sepinwall: The Best TV Shows of 2025
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Lists

10 Best New TV Shows of 2018: Lorraine Ali: Los Angeles Times

My Not-Top-Ten Television List: Emily Nussbaum: New Yorker

Trending Lists

80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel

Trending Works

The Sunshine Place
Sly Thom Zimny
Clean Slate
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Idlewild Idlewild
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Liars Sarah Manguso
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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

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