Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Matt Patches: Fighting in the War Room: Top Ten Films of 2025
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Roxane Gay (editor)

Not That Bad
1. Best Books of 2018: Paste
2. Best Books of 2018: Entropy
- 50 of the Best Feminist Books of 2018: Autostraddle

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Liars Sarah Manguso
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Oracle Cate Marvin
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Idlewild Idlewild
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Sly Thom Zimny
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
The Sunshine Place
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story

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