Year-End Lists

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

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: 10 Best Podcasts of 2025
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Lists

Best TV of 2024 Chicago Tribune
Best TV of 2023 Chicago Tribune
The Best TV of 2022 Chicago Tribune

Trending Lists

2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
10 Best Podcasts of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Long Story Short
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Devil You Know The Coathangers
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
House and Land House and Land
God Said No Omar Apollo
The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
XXX Danny Brown
Boom Town Sam Anderson
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
The Noble Art Of Self Destruction Holding Absence
No Matter Jana Prikryl

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