Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
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Lists

My Top 10 Movies of 2021
My Top 11 TV Shows of 2021
Top TV Shows of 2018
20 Best TV Shows of 2017 Variety
20 Best TV Shows of 2016 Variety

Trending Lists

Albums of 2025 Gorilla vs. Bear
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Francesca David Murray Quartet
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Sly Thom Zimny
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Liars Sarah Manguso
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Oracle Cate Marvin
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Clean Slate
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Idlewild Idlewild

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