Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Michael Sicinski: Top 12 Films of 2014
In Review Online: Top 20 Films of 2014
IndieWire Poll: Top 50 Films of 2014
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Carlos Lozada: PBS: Best Books of 2018

02 January 2019

Carlos Lozada: Best Books of 2018, as posted by PBS

Also from PBS in 2018: Ann Patchett

The Line Becomes a River
Dispatches from the Border

Francisco Cantú
Good and Mad
The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger

Rebecca Traister
Post-Truth

Lee McIntyre
The List
A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year

Amy Siskind
The Lies That Bind
Rethinking Identity

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 20 Films of 2014 In Review Online
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
How Big Things Get Done Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner
Pom Pom Ariel Pink
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
To Paradise Hanya Yanagihara
Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana Bad Bunny
May God Bless Your Hustle Mike
The Brutalist Brady Corbet
Quo Vadis, Aida? Jasmila Žbanić
Chuck Chuck Baby Janis Pugh
Moonlight Barry Jenkins
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
A Country of Strangers D. Nurkse

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