Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Justin Bieber

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Best Albums of 2020: Jon Caramanica: New York Times

The 10 Best Albums of 2020: Los Angeles Times

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025 Entertainment Weekly
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Civil War Alex Garland
Weapons Zach Cregger
Rectify
Booksmart Olivia Wilde
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Ruth Kate Riley
First Cow Kelly Reichardt
Deep State Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
The Righteous Gemstones
The Other Story Avi Nesher
Mob Psycho 100
XXX Danny Brown
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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

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