Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

by Meshell Ndegeocello

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NPR: NPR Music
The Best Albums of 2024: David Hajdu: The Nation
Best Albums of 2024: AllMusic

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Alpha Julia Ducournau
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
We the People Jill Lepore
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Antigone Eiko Ishibashi
Weapons Zach Cregger
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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