Year-End Lists

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

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The 10 Best TV Shows of 2015: Inkoo Kang: Village Voice

20 Best TV Shows of 2017: Noel Murray: Verge

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Movies of 2011 Total Film
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Renaissance Beyoncé
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Gladiator
My Dad Wrote A Porno
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Obscure with Michael Ian Black Michael Ian Black
Western Valeska Grisebach
Boom Town Sam Anderson
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
R U Talkin' R.E.M. RE: ME?
Someone Knows Something
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Eric Appel
Binge Mode: Harry Potter
The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese

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