Year-End Lists

A hand-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
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Catherine Lacey

The Möbius Book
- The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025: Them
Biography of X
Pew
1. Best Books of 2020: Refinery29
- 2021 Award: Dylan Thomas Prize
- The Best Books of 2020: Thrillist
The Answers
- 10 Best Books of 2017: Megan O’Grady: Vogue
- 24 Favorite Books of 2017: A.V. Club

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Albums of the Year 2025 Clash
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Clean Slate
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Sunshine Place
Idlewild Idlewild
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Fingernails Christos Nikou
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Francesca David Murray Quartet

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