Year-End Lists

A 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
Clarisse Loughrey: Independent: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Aaron Lee Tasjan

Lists

The Best Albums of 2024: Chris Willman: Variety
Best Albums of 2024: Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2022 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Eno Gary Hustwit
Songs from Big Pleasant Big Pleasant
Le Kov Gwenno
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
Fargo
Embers of the Hands Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Interior Live Oak Cass McCombs
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry
The Long Walk Francis Lawrence
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
House of Huawei Eva Dou

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