Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Benjamin Schwarz: Atlantic: Books of the Year 2011
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cokemachineglow: 10 Albums We Loved Most in 2014
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Variety: TV Shows: 2018

Best TV Shows of 2018 Caroline Framke · Variety
Best TV Shows of 2018 Daniel D’Addario · Variety

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2016 Sam Weisberg · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2015 Robert Koehler · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Books of the Year 2011 Benjamin Schwarz · Atlantic
Albums of 2011 DIY
Albums of the Year 2025 Rough Trade
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
10 Albums We Loved Most in 2014 Cokemachineglow
Best Films of 2016 Adrian Martin · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Films of 2014 Roger Koza · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2015 Denis Côté · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll

Trending Works

Strange Weekend Porcelain Raft
The Worm HMLTD
Sugar & Spice Hatchie
A Ghost of Caribou Alice Henderson
Weapons Zach Cregger
Devil Is Fine Zeal & Ardor
Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast
As You Were Liam Gallagher
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch
Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
new alhambra elvis depressedly
Everything’s Getting Older Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat
Electric Light James Bay
Collapse Aphex Twin

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