Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Boston Globe: The Best Books of 2025
Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Long Walk to Freedom

The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

by Nelson Mandela

Lists

Favorite Books of 2018: Barack Obama

Trending Lists

Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Fiction of 2025 Maria Crawford · Financial Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2011 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
Tomboy Panda Bear
Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski
All the Cities of the North Dane Komljen
Technically Acceptable Ethan Iverson
The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
The House That Jack Built Lars von Trier
Who Is Government? Michael Lewis
The Serpent
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
Borrasca
A Hologram for the King Tom Tykwer
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro

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