Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Orchards of a Futile Heaven
1. Top 50 Albums of 2024: The Wire
2. Albums of the Year 2024: Quietus

Trending Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Alpha Julia Ducournau
We the People Jill Lepore
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig

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