Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

The 20 Best Podcasts of 2024: Guardian

The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025: Brendan Menapace: Esquire

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Second Mansions Le Concorde
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Face Down in the Garden Tennis
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Hi Texas
The Long Walk Francis Lawrence
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
American Crime Story
I Swear Kirk Jones
Slow West John Maclean

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