Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Polaris Music Prize: 2026 Award
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Mercury Prize: 2026 Award
more

Birthing

by Swans

Appears on six lists

#6 Top 100 Albums of 2025: Louder Than War
#14 Best Albums of 2025: Obscure Sound
#16 The Top 50 Albums Of 2025: Still Listening
#25 Top 50 Albums of 2025: Beats Per Minute
#40 The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Slant
#76 The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Dean's List 2023 Robert Christgau
Best Films of 2017 Ryan Gilbey · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
2026 Award Polaris Music Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Hugo Martin Scorsese
The Matter with Morris David Bergen
MIH-TY Jeremih & Ty Dolla $ign
The Pear Field Nana Ekvtimishvili
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree Shokoofeh Azar
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
Mildred Pierce Todd Haynes
Pretty Red Dress Dionne Edwards
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor Julie Iromuanya
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Pigeon Alys Conran
Cyan Blue Charlotte Day Wilson
K Bernardo Kucinski
Faces on the Tip of My Tongue Emmanuelle Pagano

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds