Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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James Poniewozik: New York Times: Best TV Shows of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Destroyer
- Best Music of 2023: Steve Erickson Runner-up
Unseen Forces
- 25 Top 100 Albums of 2017: Quietus
- Favorite Albums of 2017: Sasha Frere-Jones also good

Trending Lists

Best Books of 2018 Time
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Guardian
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
11 Best Books of 2015 Entertainment Weekly
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
2026 Award The Booker Prize

Trending Works

Horses Jake Skeets
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
I Never Learn Lykke Li
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Still Brazy YG
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Defiance Loubna Mrie
Good Times! The Monkees
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff

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