Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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by Annie Hartnett

Lists

27 Best Books of 2017: Gina Vaynshteyn: Hello Giggles

Trending Lists

Top 100 Albums of 2012 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant

Trending Works

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

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