Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Atlantic: The Best Books of 2025
more

Jonathan Swift

His Life and His World

by Leo Damrosch

Lists

Nonfiction 2014: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize

Trending Lists

50 Best Albums of 2018 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 Slant
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Tabu Miguel Gomes
XXX Danny Brown
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
Certified Copy Abbas Kiarostami
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Portrait of a Lady on Fire Céline Sciamma
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
An Elephant Sitting Still Hu Bo
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade
‘Til Madness Do Us Part Wang Bing
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Inside Llewyn Davis Joel & Ethan Coen

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