Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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by Mary Halvorson

Lists

The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters
Albums of the Year 2024: Quietus

The 12 Best Albums of 2024: Carl Wilson: Slate

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

American Prison Shane Bauer
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Florida Project Sean Baker
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
Morning Circle Basma al-Sharif
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
Pavements Alex Ross Perry
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Getting Killed Geese

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