Year-End Lists

A 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
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
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by Sayaka Murata

Lists

Best Books of 2018: BuzzFeed

Best Fiction of 2019: Powell's Books
Favorite Books of 2018: Lit Hub
2018 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness
Best Books of 2018: Katy Waldman: New Yorker
Best Books of 2018: Bustle

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2018 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Albums of 2021 Dork
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s A.V. Club
Top Ten Films of 2025 Matt Patches · Fighting in the War Room
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Heart the Lover Lily King
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Return to Seoul Davy Chou
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Five Seconds Flat Lizzy McAlpine
Flesh David Szalay
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer Vincent Le Port
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Visions of Bodies Being Burned clipping.
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Ripley Steven Zaillian
Happyend Neo Sora
The Traitors Circle Jonathan Freedland

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