Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

The 14 Best TV Shows of 2021 Vanity Fair
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020 Vanity Fair
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2019 Vanity Fair
10 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Vanity Fair
10 Best TV Shows of 2018 Vanity Fair
25 Best TV Shows of 2017 Variety
20 Best TV Shows of 2016 Variety
Best TV of 2015 Salon

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor

Trending Works

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Succession
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Heart the Lover Lily King
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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