Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Inkoo Kang: New Yorker: The Best TV Shows of 2025
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Chopin: Mazurkas

by Pavel Kolesnikov

Lists

Best 50 Albums of 2016: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
Shock Test…A Night of Truth: Bill Hicks & Timothy McVeigh Meet at Waco w/ Guest Lecturers: William Cooper & Ted Kaczynski Sean Kilpatrick
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
We the People Jill Lepore
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow

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