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
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021: Washington Post

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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