Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Christian Science Monitor: The Top 25 Books for 2025
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Favorite Albums of 2025: Grace Robins-Somerville
Top 50 Albums of 2025: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop
Top 100 Albums of 2025: Under the Radar
The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
Succession
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer

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