Year-End Lists

A 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
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2013
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Madness

Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

by Antonia Hylton

Lists

The Best Nonfiction of 2024: BookPage
100 Notable Books of 2024: New York Times: New York Times
The Best Books of 2024: New Yorker

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2019 Christy Lemire · RogerEbert.com
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
50 Best Albums of 2013 Complex
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Pitchfork
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Treble
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Jafar Panahi
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter Aja Monet
Queer Luca Guadagnino
The Universe Smiles upon You Khruangbin
Western Valeska Grisebach
Counterpart
The Serpent
Norman Fucking Rockwell! Lana Del Rey
Resurrection Bi Gan
A Still Small Voice Luke Lorentzen
The Missing Picture Rithy Panh

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