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
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Willi Carlisle

Winged Victory
- 19 The Best Country Music Albums of 2025: Holler
- 48 Dean's List 2025: Robert Christgau
Critterland
- Top 15 Albums of 2024: Ann Powers: NPR: NPR Music
Peculiar, Missouri

Trending Lists

Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Poetry 2026 National Book Award
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Islah Kevin Gates
Horses Jake Skeets
Seeing Ghosts Kat Chow
Defiance Loubna Mrie
No Time for Dreaming Charles Bradley
Dèy Edwidge Danticat
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson
Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Good Times! The Monkees
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff

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