Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Boston Globe: The Best Books of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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1. Favorite Albums of 2020: Jeremy D. Larson

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
Best Fiction of 2025 Maria Crawford · Financial Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
20 Best Movies of 2012 Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2024 Washington Post

Trending Works

The English Hugo Blick
Spotlight Tom McCarthy
Son of Saul László Nemes
The Chronology of Water Kristen Stewart
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
I'm Your Woman Julia Hart
Vertières I, II, III Louise Botkay
Demolished Thoughts Thurston Moore
Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino
All the Cities of the North Dane Komljen
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
Sex Education

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