Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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Separate

The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

by Steve Luxenberg

Lists

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

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
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

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Aftersun Charlotte Wells
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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