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: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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The List

by Yomi Adegoke

Lists

The Best Novels of 2023: Dazed

Trending Lists

The 20 Best TV Shows Of 2023 The Playlist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Ten Best Films of 2021 RogerEbert.com
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

All Our Knives Are Always Sharp Tony Njoku
From Ground Zero various directors
Honeydew Devereux Milburn
Returning to Reims (Fragments) Jean-Gabriel Périot
Long Strange Trip Amir Bar-Lev
Robot Dreams Pablo Berger
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Flight Behavior Barbara Kingsolver
Summertime ’06 Vince Staples
Thelma Josh Margolin
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
L. Cohen James Benning
Whores’ Glory Michael Glawogger
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Marilyn Agrelo

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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