Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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Impeachment: American Crime Story

Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2021: Ben Yakas: Gothamist

The 11 Best TV Shows of 2021: Lorraine Ali: Los Angeles Times
The 10 Best TV Shows of 2021: Matthew Gilbert: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Liars Sarah Manguso
Clean Slate
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
The Sunshine Place
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Sly Thom Zimny
Idlewild Idlewild
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker

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