Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Brittany Allen: Lit Hub: The Best Literary Podcasts of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

The Best Books of 2025: Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Literary Podcasts of 2025 Brittany Allen · Lit Hub
50 Best Albums of 2018 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times

Trending Works

What's Your Pleasure? Jessie Ware
How to Be a Human Being Glass Animals
Climax Gaspar Noé
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Snocaps Snocaps
Pictures Of The Warm South Vanessa Rossetto
Liam Gallagher & John Squire Liam Gallagher & John Squire
Free TC Ty Dolla $ign
Minding the Gap Bing Liu
RIP Actress
XXX Danny Brown
>> Beak
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers Akiva Schaffer

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