Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
more

Noreen Masud

A Flat Place
- Non-Fiction 2024: Women's Prize

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win

Trending Works

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

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