Year-End Lists

A hand-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
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Woman Upstairs

by Claire Messud

Lists

The Top 10 Books of 2013: Jane Ciabattari: BBC: BBC Culture

Top 10 Books of 2013: Washington Post
The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

50 Best Albums of 2015 Complex
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2020 Shondaland
The Best Books of 2023 New Yorker
12 Best TV Shows of 2016 David Wiegand · San Francisco Chronicle
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Molly Young · New York · Vulture
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Ghosts In The Burbs
Elatsoe Darcie Little Badger
Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund
A Shining Jon Fosse
Path of Totality Niina Pollari
Grand Tour Elisa Gonzalez
The Great Offshore Grounds Vanessa Veselka
Mutual Interest Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Wicked Jon M. Chu
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Romance in Marseille Claude McKay
Breathe Mélanie Laurent
I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko
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