Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Favorite Fifteen Films of 2012: Marya E. Gates

Trending Lists

Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Movies of 2024 Owen Gleiberman · Variety
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 100 Films of the 2010s In Review Online
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Long Story Short
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Submit X Gesloten Cirkel
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Monsoon Hong Khaou
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
Tár Todd Field
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Premature Rashaad Ernesto Green

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