Year-End Lists

A 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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Twilight of Democracy

The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

by Anne Applebaum

Lists

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020: Washington Post
Favorite Books of 2020: Barack Obama

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Moloch Merkabah
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boeckner! Boeckner
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Kristen Arnett
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
The Good Sun Homeboy Sandman
Equus Asinus Men I Trust
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Where Only The Truth Is Spoken Malevolence
Sex Education
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia

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