Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Economist: The Best Podcasts of 2022

25 November 2022

Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV

The Economist: The Best Podcasts of 2022

[see also 2024 • 2023]

Can I tell you a secret?
Death of an Artist: The Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre Story
Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus
How We Survive
Not Lost
The Run-Up
Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV
Wild Boys
Will Be Wild
We Were Three

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The MANIAC Benjamin Labatut
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Ad Astra James Gray
Getting Killed Geese
On Falling Laura Carreira
Saint Omer Alice Diop
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
The Ice Tower Lucile Hadzihalilovic
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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