Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sean Fennessey: 100 Favorite Movies of 2024
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Les Inrocks: Our Top Films of 2025
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The Afghanistan Papers

A Secret History of the War

by Craig Whitlock

Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2021: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Favorite Movies of 2024 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
Top 100 TV Shows of the 2010s Consequence
50 Best Albums of 2011 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

The Serpent
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski
The House That Jack Built Lars von Trier
Frankenstein Guillermo del Toro
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
I'm a Virgo Boots Riley
France Bruno Dumont
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
Tomboy Panda Bear
The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
A Hologram for the King Tom Tykwer
Who Is Government? Michael Lewis
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie

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