Year-End Lists

A hand-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
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Poetry 2018: National Book Award
10 Best Poetry Books of 2018: Chicago Review of Books

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
No Other Land Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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