Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Lists

Best Movies of 2018: Miriam Bale
Best TV of 2018: Robert Lloyd: Los Angeles Times

Top 13 Films of 2018: Lydia Ogwang: Lists Curated by Toronto Film Review

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

A Children's Bible Lydia Millet
Anita de Monte Laughs Last Xóchitl González
XXX Danny Brown
The 25th Anniversary of Christina Aguilera Christina Aguilera
Sugar Honey Iced Tea Latto
Half of Where You Live Gold Panda
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
The Revolutionists Jason Burke
Before We Vanish Kiyoshi Kurosawa
That Was Something Dan Callahan
Mt. Marci Roc Marciano
Away Okkervil River
Rock N Roll Consciousness Thurston Moore
The Golden House Salman Rushdie

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