Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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James Poniewozik: New York Times: Best TV Shows of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2026
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Erika Balsom: Movies: 2021

Best Films of 2021 Erika Balsom · Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2021 Erika Balsom · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2026 Award The Booker Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
11 Best Books of 2015 Entertainment Weekly
Poetry 2026 National Book Award
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Horses Jake Skeets
The Call Yannick Murphy
No Time for Dreaming Charles Bradley
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Dèy Edwidge Danticat
Seeing Ghosts Kat Chow
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Islah Kevin Gates
Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Good Times! The Monkees
Spawning Season Joseph Osmundson

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