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
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Robert Draper

Weapons of Mass Delusion
- The 10 Best Books of 2022: Washington Post
To Start a War
1. Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction: BookPage

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post

Trending Works

Thresholder Ian William Craig
Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Vida
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Shrouds David Cronenberg
Light Into Bodies Nancy Chen Long
Train Dreams Clint Bentley

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