Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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The Saddest Words

William Faulkner's Civil War

by Michael Edward Gorra

Lists

100 Notable Books of 2020: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Life After Reid Davenport
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Boy Who Played the Harp Dave
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Long Story Short
Alan Sparhawk with Trampled by Turtles Alan Sparhawk and Trampled by Turtles
Getting Killed Geese
I Love My Computer Ninajirachi
What We Spend
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Good Boy Ben Leonberg

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