Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Benjamin Schwarz: Atlantic: Books of the Year 2011
Adrian Martin: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Films of 2016
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- Best Books of 2022: Traci Thomas: The Stacks Podcast
- Favorite Books of 2022: San Francisco Chronicle

Trending Lists

Albums of the Year 2025 Rough Trade
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2016 Adrian Martin · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Albums of 2011 DIY
Books of the Year 2011 Benjamin Schwarz · Atlantic
The Best Movies of 2024 Peter Debruge · Variety
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2014 Roger Koza · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Devil Is Fine Zeal & Ardor
Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast
The Worm HMLTD
A Ghost of Caribou Alice Henderson
Everything’s Getting Older Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat
Electric Light James Bay
Islah Kevin Gates
Sugar & Spice Hatchie
Weapons Zach Cregger
Nickel Boys RaMell Ross
Strange Weekend Porcelain Raft
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
new alhambra elvis depressedly

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