Year-End Lists

A 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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Writing to Save a Life

The Louis Till File

by John Edgar Wideman

Lists

20 Best Nonfiction Books of 2016: Kate Tuttle: Boston Globe
100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle

Trending Lists

100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2024 Billboard
The Best Films of 2023 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Nine Inch Nails
Becoming Cousteau Liz Garbus
This Is Happening LCD Soundsystem
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
Crowd Can Talk Lifeguard
Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse Mariah Carey
Girl with Basket of Fruit Xiu Xiu
Life After Reid Davenport
Portal Balu Brigada
REFORM! Jon Bois
XXX Danny Brown
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
Living in a Glass House Makin' Out

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