Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Pitchfork: The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s
Far Out: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 15 Best TV Shows of 2025
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by Elaine Castillo

Lists

Favorite Books of 2022: Salon

Best Nonfiction of 2022: BookPage
Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Far Out
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Billboard
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 National Book Award
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 A.V. Club
The 15 Best TV Shows of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama
50 Best Albums of 2013 Complex
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork

Trending Works

A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
Stories from the Chestnut Woods Gregor Božič
House of Hummingbird Kim Bora
The Netanyahus Joshua Cohen
Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl Carrie Brownstein
The Temple Woods Gang Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
child in a winter house brightening Abigail Zimmer
Palais d’argile Feu! Chatterton
The Universe Smiles upon You Khruangbin
Adopting Audrey M. Cahill
Bottoms Emma Seligman
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Jafar Panahi
The Duke of Burgundy Peter Strickland
Mambos Levis D'Outro Mundo various artists

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