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
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The Best Books of 2022: J. Howard Rosier: Chron

10 of the Best Poetry Collections of 2022: Connie Pan: Book Riot
Poetry 2022: National Book Award

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Ryan Swen
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Sly Thom Zimny
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Oracle Cate Marvin
The Sunshine Place
Idlewild Idlewild
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Clean Slate
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Liars Sarah Manguso
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Diamond Eyes Deftones

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