Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
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Oprah with Meghan and Harry

Lists

Best of TV 2021: Inkoo Kang: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
Top 100 Films of the 2010s In Review Online
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Favorite Books of 2025 MJ Franklin
Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Tár Todd Field
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Awake Jen Hatmaker
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Soi Cheang
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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