Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
Emily St. James: Vox: The Best TV Shows of 2021
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On Belonging in America

by Laila Lalami

Lists

Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction: BookPage

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020: Time

Trending Lists

Top 25 Movies of 2012 Wesley Morris · Boston Globe
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
10 Best Films of 2014 John Waters · Artforum
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 100 Albums of 2025 Under the Radar
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best TV Shows of 2021 Emily St. James · Vox

Trending Works

Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Is This Thing On? Bradley Cooper
Sorry to Bother You The Coup
Eddington Ari Aster
The Broken King Michael Thomas
Bright I Burn Molly Aitken
The Woman Next Door Yewande Omotoso
Third Act Tadashi Nakamura
Cool Town Grace Elizabeth Hale
Electric Pet Shop Boys
Miroirs No. 3 Christian Petzold
Ernest & Celestine Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Memoria Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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