Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Alan Sepinwall: The Best TV Shows of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Shakespeare in a Divided America

What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future

by James Shapiro

Lists

100 Notable Books of 2020: New York Times: New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2020: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
20 Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Bird Andrea Arnold
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
“Vladimir Mayakovsky” and Other Poems Vladimir Mayakovsky
hexed! aya
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
That Was Something Dan Callahan
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Des fantômes Faune

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