Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2023
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Robert Lloyd: Los Angeles Times: Best TV Shows of 2025
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The Mirage Factory

Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles

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Lists

100 Notable Books of 2018: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best TV Shows of 2025 Robert Lloyd · Los Angeles Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Our House on the Hill The Babies
You're Weird Now Guerilla Toss
The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes Elissa R. Sloan
Mr. Bachmann and His Class Maria Speth
Golliwog Billy Woods
Antigone Eiko Ishibashi
The Other Side of Everything Mila Turajlic
American Honey Andrea Arnold
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
While We’re Young Noah Baumbach
The Square Ruben Östlund
We the People Jill Lepore
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay

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