Year-End Lists

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

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Headlong: Surviving Y2K

Appears on three lists

2 The 50 Best Podcasts of 2018: Atlantic
7 The 10 Best Podcasts of 2018: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture
9 15 Best Podcasts of 2018: Peter Larsen: Mercury News

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Guardian
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
10 Best TV Shows of 2017 Alison Herman · The Ringer
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
11 Best Books of 2015 Entertainment Weekly
2026 Award The Booker Prize
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award

Trending Works

Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Good Times! The Monkees
Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Horses Jake Skeets
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Defiance Loubna Mrie
Only Lovers Left Alive Jim Jarmusch
Islah Kevin Gates
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
I Never Learn Lykke Li

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