Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Clarisse Loughrey: Independent: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
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by Luke Gilford

Lists

Favorite Films of 2024: Austin Noto-Moniz
Top 10 Films of 2024: Adam Kempenaar: Filmspotting
The 50 Best Movies of 2024: Paste

The 18 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2024: Them

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Paste
The 55 Best TV Shows of the 2010s BuzzFeed
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best TV Shows of 2022 BuzzFeed
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
25 Best TV Shows of 2018 Slant
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Top 20 TV Shows of 2019 Decider
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Hamnet Chloé Zhao
The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis Jeffrey Lewis
1989 Taylor Swift
Speak To Me Julian Lage
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
Rental Family Hikari
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
One Year: 1977
Agatha All Along
American: An Odyssey to 1947 Danny Wu
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
Trois, Deux, Un Juniore
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Interior Live Oak Cass McCombs

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