Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Booker Prize: 2026 Award
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The 13 Best New Podcasts of 2022: Lauren Passell: Lifehacker

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The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Screen Slate
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
2026 Award The Booker Prize
TV Shows of the Year 2025 New Statesman
Best Movies of 2025 Alissa Wilkinson · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

The Lumumba Plot Stuart A. Reid
Freakophone World Madison McCartha
Teaches of Peaches Philipp Fussenegger and Judy Landkammer
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh
The Empusium Olga Tokarczuk
The Year of Cat Mostafa Taghizadeh
I’m So Fine Khadijah Queen
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Ludwig
Bombshell Jay Roach
Above Ground Clint Smith
12 Years a Slave Steve McQueen

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