Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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- Top 10 Albums of 2022: Marissa Lorusso: NPR: NPR Music
- The 60 Best Albums of 2022: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
2025 Dublin Literary Award

Trending Works

Clean Slate
Liars Sarah Manguso
The Sunshine Place
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sly Thom Zimny
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Oracle Cate Marvin
Francesca David Murray Quartet
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

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