Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Ann Hornaday: Washington Post: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Burning Questions

Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

by Margaret Atwood

Lists

The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022: BBC: BBC Culture

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 100 Albums of 2011 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Close Your Eyes Blue Ranger
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Body Talk Robyn
The Grey Album Kevin Young
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Black Metal Dean Blunt
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
The Power of the Dog Jane Campion
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Boarding House Reach Jack White
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Urchin Harris Dickinson
The 40-Year-Old Version Radha Blank

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