Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The First Bad Man

by Miranda July

Lists

2015 First Novel Prize: The Center for Fiction
50 Best Books of 2015: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
20 Favorite Books of 2015: A.V. Club

Trending Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Room for the Moon Kate NV
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
That Was Something Dan Callahan
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
The Lakes of Zones B and C Emperor X
Possession Christian Mistress
Mt. Marci Roc Marciano
XXX Danny Brown
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Before We Vanish Kiyoshi Kurosawa
hexed! aya
Aux Pieds de la Nuit Nyx Nott

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