Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Aftershocks

by Nadia Owusu

Lists

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021: Annabel Gutterman: Time

The Best Books of 2021: Hillary Kelly: New York: Vulture
The 50 Best Books of 2021: Esquire
Favorite Books of 2021: Barack Obama
Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Alpha Julia Ducournau
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Hi Texas
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Face Down in the Garden Tennis
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
American Crime Story
Is a River Alive? Robert Macfarlane
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade

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