Year-End Lists

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

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BuzzFeed: Best Poetry of 2019
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Joy of Basketball

An Encyclopedia of the Modern Game

by Ben Detrick & Andrew Kuo

Lists

Best Books of 2021: Passerby

Trending Lists

Top Ten Films of 2020 Clémence Polès Farhang
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Albums Of 2023 Complex
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Poetry of 2019 BuzzFeed
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 National Book Award
Albums of 2021 Gorilla vs. Bear
75 Best Albums of 2018 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Virtue Hermione Hoby
Could It Be Different? The Spook School
The Exorcist
A Useful Ghost Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed Meghan Daum
Att. Young Miko
Frankie Ira Sachs
Shaneera Fatima Al Qadiri
An Uneasy Inheritance Polly Toynbee
Easy, episode "Package Thief" Joe Swanberg
Araf — Somewhere In Between Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere Nate Smith
She Taught Love Nate Edwards

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