Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Electric Arches

by Eve L. Ewing

Lists

10 Best Books of 2017: Chicago Tribune

8 Best Poetry Books of 2017: Chicago Review of Books
10 Best Books of 2017: Chicago Public Library
The 10 Best Poetry Collections of the Decade: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Splitsville Michael Angelo Covino
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
Idlewild Idlewild
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
28 Years Later Danny Boyle
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Here Robert Zemeckis
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
A Still Small Voice Luke Lorentzen

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