Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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The Best TV Shows of 2025: Aramide Tinubu: Variety
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025: Judy Berman: Time
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025: RogerEbert.com
The Best TV Of 2025: The Playlist

The 10 Best TV Series of 2025: IndieWire
The Best TV Shows Of 2025: HuffPost

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
50 Best Movies of 2015 Paste
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Catherine Called Birdy Lena Dunham
Dan's Boogie Destroyer
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
Hunting Season Home Is Where
In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors: A Past, Present and Personal Story Rachel Hewitt
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Death Farm Carl Hauck
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
Le Kov Gwenno
On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock

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