Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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The Best TV of 2019: LaToya Ferguson: A.V. Club

My Top 11 TV Shows of 2021: Maureen Ryan

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The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Galleons Rick Barot
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
XXX Danny Brown
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Lowdown
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Keeper of the Shepherd Hannah Frances

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