Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Alan Sepinwall: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Rave On Buddy Holly

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Top 10 Albums of 2011: Jason Bentley: KCRW

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
20 Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
That Was Something Dan Callahan
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Aux Pieds de la Nuit Nyx Nott
Des fantômes Faune
hooke’s law KeiyaA
World Wide Pop Superorganism
hexed! aya
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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