Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Spectral Evidence

by Gregory Pardlo

Lists

Poetry 2024: National Book Award
Best Poetry of 2024: Library Journal

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Favorite Novels of 2021 Electric Lit
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll

Trending Works

Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Francesca David Murray Quartet
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Sly Thom Zimny
The Sunshine Place
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Clean Slate
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Idlewild Idlewild
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Oracle Cate Marvin
Liars Sarah Manguso
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas

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