Year-End Lists

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

Movies TV Shows Music Books Poetry Podcasts

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Guardian: The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025
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by Jacques Perrin & Jacques Cluzaud

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11 The Best Films of 2016: J.R. Jones: Chicago Reader Runner-up

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Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Poetry 2026 National Book Award
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
11 Best Books of 2015 Entertainment Weekly
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Guardian
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Good Times! The Monkees
Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman
Only Lovers Left Alive Jim Jarmusch
Defiance Loubna Mrie
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Horses Jake Skeets
Islah Kevin Gates
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff

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