Year-End Lists

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

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Agatha All Along

Lists

Best TV Shows of 2024: BuzzFeed
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2024: A.V. Club
The 30 Best TV Shows of 2024: Paste
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024: Polygon
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024: Guardian

The 22 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows of 2024: Them

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Second Mansions Le Concorde
Slow West John Maclean
Pavements Alex Ross Perry
Good Living Is Coming For You Sweeping Promises
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Lurker Alex Russell
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Face Down in the Garden Tennis
Getting Killed Geese

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