Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Inkoo Kang: New Yorker: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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20 Favorite Movies of 2014: J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
We the People Jill Lepore
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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