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
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Emily Nussbaum

Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2019 New Yorker
My Not-Top-Ten Television List New Yorker
Definitely Not a Top Ten List New Yorker

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Oracle Cate Marvin
Idlewild Idlewild
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Clean Slate
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Sly Thom Zimny
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place
Liars Sarah Manguso

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