Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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False Dawn

The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947

by George Selgin

Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025: Wall Street Journal

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Staying Vertical Alain Guiraudie
Tiny Dinos
1Q84 Haruki Murakami

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