Year-End Lists

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

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Lists

The Best Podcasts of 2022: Sarah Larson: New Yorker

Trending Lists

The Best TV Shows & Mini-Series of the Decade The Playlist
Top 10 Movies of 2011 Dana Stevens · Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei
Getting Killed Geese
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Civil War Alex Garland
From Ground Zero
Beginners Mike Mills
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman

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