Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2020: Doreen St. Félix: New Yorker
Best TV Shows of 2020: James Poniewozik: New York Times

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Complex
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Complex
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2018 Q
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Outside Noise Ted Fendt
The Substance Coralie Fargeat
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The Empire Bruno Dumont
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan
The Souvenir Part II Joanna Hogg
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee David Treuer
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Brat Charli XCX

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