Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
more

How Democracies Die

by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

Lists

Best Books of 2018: Time
Best Books of 2018: Paste

100 Notable Books of 2018: Washington Post
Favorite Books of 2018: Barack Obama

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Weapons Zach Cregger
The Unseen Truth Sarah Lewis
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Like Cattle Towards Glow Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley
Getting Killed Geese
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Kahlil Joseph
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds