Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Lists

Best Books of 2018: Entropy
Best Fiction Of 2018: Claire Fallon: HuffPost
Best Books of 2018: BuzzFeed

20 Best Books of 2018: Boston.com
100 Recommended Books of 2018: San Francisco Chronicle
100 Notable Books of 2018: New York Times: New York Times
Best Books Of 2018: Kristin Iversen: Nylon
Favorite Books of 2018: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Antidote Karen Russell
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
XXX Danny Brown
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt

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