Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Electric Arches

by Eve L. Ewing

Lists

10 Best Books of 2017: Chicago Tribune

8 Best Poetry Books of 2017: Chicago Review of Books
10 Best Books of 2017: Chicago Public Library
The 10 Best Poetry Collections of the Decade: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Albums of the Year 2025 Clash
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Sly Thom Zimny
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Idlewild Idlewild
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Clean Slate
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
The Sunshine Place
Diamond Eyes Deftones

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