Year-End Lists

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

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
James Poniewozik: New York Times: Best TV Shows of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2026
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Stretch Music (Introducing Elena Pinderhughes)

by Christian Scott

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50 Favorite Albums of 2015: NPR: NPR Music

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The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Poetry 2026 National Book Award
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2026 Award The Booker Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Horses Jake Skeets
Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman
Dèy Edwidge Danticat
No Time for Dreaming Charles Bradley
The Call Yannick Murphy
Good Times! The Monkees
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Seeing Ghosts Kat Chow
Islah Kevin Gates
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer

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