Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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- 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022: Washington Post
Florence Gordon
- Fiction 2014: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Favorite Fifteen Films of 2014 Marya E. Gates
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
The Best Films of 2020 Beatrice Loayza · A.V. Club
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2021 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 20 Movies of 2014 Dana Stevens · Slate
25 Best Films of 2012 Slant

Trending Works

Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
The Antidote Karen Russell
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Rakshak Bloodywood

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