Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2025
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The Pale King

An Unfinished Novel

by David Foster Wallace

Lists

10 Best Novels of 2011: Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air

100 Notable Books of 2011: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Resurrection Bi Gan
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Boom Town Sam Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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