Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Loudwire: The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2024
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Penguin Cafe

Handfuls of Night
1. Albums of the Year 2019: Rough Trade
The Imperfect Sea
1. 50 Best Albums of 2017: Paste

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
Top 100 Albums of 2017 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2024 Loudwire
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Fiction of 2025 Maria Crawford · Financial Times

Trending Works

The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Who Is Government? Michael Lewis
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
Invention Courtney Stephens
The Chronology of Water Kristen Stewart
Son of Saul László Nemes
The English Hugo Blick
Sex Education
The House That Jack Built Lars von Trier
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Vertières I, II, III Louise Botkay
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
All the Cities of the North Dane Komljen
Spotlight Tom McCarthy

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