Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

The 20 Best TV Shows of 2024: Nick Hilton: Independent
The 50 Best TV Show of 2022: Guardian
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024: Guardian

The Best TV Shows of 2022: Inkoo Kang: New Yorker
Top 50 Films of 2021: Robert Daniels

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
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 Fiction Books of 2023 Annabel Gutterman · Time
50 Best Albums of 2015 Mojo
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 Time
The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 Time
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2025 John Waters · New York · Vulture

Trending Works

Terry Dactyl Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Stochastic Drift Barker
Reservation Dogs
Mrs. Fletcher
Noble
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Drive My Car Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Gen V
National Average Big Special
The History of Money David McWilliams
Anora Sean Baker
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Apothecary Diaries

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