Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
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Take Off From Mercy
1. 123 Favorite Albums Of 2024: Hanif Abdurraqib
Onwards!
1. 100 Favorite Albums of 2022: Hanif Abdurraqib
Love Suite
1. 83 Favorite Albums Of 2021: Hanif Abdurraqib

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Albums of 2025 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Sentences and Rain Elaine Equi
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
Hijack
Mother Emanuel Kevin Sack
Known and Strange Things Teju Cole
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee
Death Farm Carl Hauck

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