Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Mama's Last Hug

Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

by Frans de Waal

Lists

Best Nonfiction Books of 2019: BookPage

100 Notable Books of 2019: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Idlewild Idlewild
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Clean Slate
Sly Thom Zimny
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Liars Sarah Manguso
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones

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