Best of 2025: Posts, Technology, Movies, TV Shows, Books, and Podcasts
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As we end 2025 and head into 2026, I wanted to look back at some of the best things from 2025, including books, movies, gadgets, and more.
✍️ Top Posts of 2025
🧑💻 Technology Stories
🎥 Movies
📺 TV Shows
📖 Books
🎙️ Podcasts
Best of 2025
Top Posts from Prodity
We’ll start off the list with the top posts from this year. From book reviews to weekly updates to podcasts, we’ve had an interesting year.
MIT Technology Review’s most popular stories of 2025
It certainly has been a big year in tech, and in tech news.
As the year winds down, we wanted to give you a chance to revisit a bit of this work with us. Whether we were covering the red-hot rise of artificial intelligence or the future of biotech, these are some of the stories that resonated the most with our readers.
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 (Rolling Stone)
I haven’t seen all the movies on this list yet, but my favorite from 2025 was undoubtedly Train Dreams.
These 20 titles aren’t just the highlights of the last 12 months. They’re the ones we’ll likely be going back to year after year. From an epic tale of resistance to a personal reimagining of a gothic horror classic, welcome to the best movies of 2025.
The Best TV Shows of 2025 (Collider)
Severance and Pluribus stand out in 2025. And Andor is highly underrated, especially given how relevant it is to current events.
The 10 Best Books of 2025 (NYT)
Admittedly, I have such a long “to read” list that I don’t often get to new releases as quickly as others do. But if you’re looking to add to your “to read” list, this might be a good place to start.
After a full year spent reading hundreds of books and meeting regularly to bicker — er, converse — about their merits and flaws, the editors of the Book Review have chosen the 10 Best Books of 2025.
The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 (Atlantic)
Podcasting has suffered a series of blows over the past few years: industry layoffs, the rise of AI-produced slop, and, perhaps most existentially, a growing focus on video platforms. But 2025 countered the narrative that the medium is somehow no longer interested in audio—with a slew of ambitious productions that emphasized podcasting, not just as a vehicle for comedy or the news, but as an art form in itself.