Year-End Lists

A 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
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Heron 1954-2002

by Alexis McCrimmon

Lists

The Best Experimental Films (That I Saw) in 2022: Michael Sicinski

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
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
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times

Trending Works

The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
La 167 Farruko
Black British Music Jim Legxacy
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
The Empire Bruno Dumont
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
Known and Strange Things Teju Cole
Death Farm Carl Hauck
Resolution 653 Instra:Mental
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar

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