Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
more

Mark Haber

Lesser Ruins
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2024: Washington Post
- 38 Favorite Books of 2024: Lit Hub
Saint Sebastian's Abyss
- Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll

Trending Works

Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
Get Out Jordan Peele
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Hey Country Queen Mackenzie Carpenter
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds