Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Clarisse Loughrey: Independent: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
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Albums of the Year 2016: Crack Magazine
50 Best Albums of 2016: Fact

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The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2022 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 20 Books of 2017 Time
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Interstellar Christopher Nolan
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... Steven Pinker
Tearless Amnesia Scanner
Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman
Fargo
Christopher Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert
Trip Amie Barrodale
Embers of the Hands Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Le Kov Gwenno
The Long Walk Francis Lawrence
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
Eno Gary Hustwit
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
House of Huawei Eva Dou

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