Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Realistic Fiction

by Anton Solomonik

Lists

The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025: Them

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Scott Tobias · The Reveal
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2023 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Nabuma Rubberband Little Dragon
Tourist / Sleeper Seams
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing Hu Anyan
The Lowdown
Scrapyard Quadeca
The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Materialists Celine Song
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
XXX Danny Brown
Meltdown Mind Spiders
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Alpha Julia Ducournau

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