Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Nicole Brenez: La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Movies of 2025
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Lists

The Best Books of 2022: Patrick Rapa: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Best Fiction of 2022: BookPage
The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022: BBC: BBC Culture
Favorite Novels of 2022: Electric Lit
Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022: Lit Hub
50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022: Washington Post
100 Notable Books of 2022: New York Times: New York Times
16 Best Books of 2022: Constance Grady: Vox

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Poetry of 2019 Library Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2011 A.O. Scott · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Nicole Brenez · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
Sirens
XXX Danny Brown
The Death of Stalin Armando Iannucci
Disobedience Sebastián Lelio
Deep State Karen Mirza and Brad Butler
Why Q Needs U Danny Bate
The Sky Socialist: Environs and Out-Takes Ken Jacobs
Mob Psycho 100
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
A Complete Unknown James Mangold
Cunningham Bird Madison Cunningham and Andrew Bird
Silo
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