Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

by John Darnielle

Lists

The 17 Best Books of 2025 You Need to Read: Vanity Fair

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Wicked Jon M. Chu
Path of Totality Niina Pollari
Breathe Mélanie Laurent
Grand Tour Elisa Gonzalez
The Great Offshore Grounds Vanessa Veselka
RRR S.S. Rajamouli
A Shining Jon Fosse
Romance in Marseille Claude McKay
I Love Russia Elena Kostyuchenko
Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Legion
Elatsoe Darcie Little Badger
Shoplifters Hirokazu Kore-eda

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