Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Drunk History

Appears on two lists

79 The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s: A.V. Club

My Not-Top-Ten Television List: Emily Nussbaum: New Yorker Fun!

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Guardian
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
I Never Learn Lykke Li
Our Time Carlos Reygadas
Horses Jake Skeets
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
Defiance Loubna Mrie
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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