Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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50 Best Albums of 2016: Fact

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100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Get Out Jordan Peele
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Hey Country Queen Mackenzie Carpenter
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
CODA Sian Heder
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

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