Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Maureen Corrigan: NPR: 10 Favorite Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Non G.M.O. Rain Dance
1. The Best Music of 2021: Jennifer Lucy Allan: Quietus

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021 Entertainment Weekly
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Rakshak Bloodywood
Held Anne Michaels
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Outside Noise Ted Fendt

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