Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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G. Willow Wilson

The Bird King
- Fiction 2020: PEN/Faulkner Award
Alif The Unseen
- Fiction 2013: Women's Prize
- 100 Notable Books of 2012: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2024 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

28 Years Later Danny Boyle
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Winter Soldier Daniel Mason
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Resurrection Bi Gan
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Feu Nekfeu
Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be Nichole Perkins
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Fear of a Black Universe Stephon Alexander

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