Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

Trending

Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
more

Build the Wall

by Joe Swanberg

Lists

The Best Movies of 2020: Richard Brody: New Yorker

Top 25 Films of 2020: In Review Online

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Paste
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Choke Enough Oklou
Hyperyouth Joey Valence & Brae
The Genius Myth Helen Lewis
The Turin Horse Béla Tarr & Agnes Hranitzky
XXX Danny Brown
Bite Me Reneé Rapp
Dept. Q
KicK iii Arca
Songs from Big Pleasant Big Pleasant
Forever Howlong Black Country, New Road
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
KICK ii Arca
Portrait of My Heart Spellling
The Rabbit Hutch Tess Gunty

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

About · Suggest, Correct · What are we missing? · Frequently Asked Questions

Bluesky · Mastodon · Threads · Twitter · RSS Feeds