Year-End Lists

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

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2022 Variety
Best TV Shows of 2021 Variety
The Best TV Shows of 2020 Variety
Best TV Shows of 2018 Variety

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50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Bent by Nature
Boom Town Sam Anderson
After Yang Kogonada
Tár Todd Field
Urchin Harris Dickinson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Soi Cheang
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
The Furrows Namwali Serpell

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