Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Christian Science Monitor: The Top 25 Books for 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
more

Nictate

Lists

Top 5 Films of 2022
Top 10 Films of 2020
Top 16 Films of 2019
Top 11 Films of 2018
Top 10 Films of 2017
Top 11 Films of 2016
15 Favorite Films of 2015

Trending Lists

10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Succession
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds