Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Movies of 2023
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Going Home

by Tom Lamont

Lists

The Top 25 Books for 2025: Christian Science Monitor
The Best Books of 2024: Economist

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

The Song of the Cell Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Gossip Columnist's Daughter Peter Orner
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Fierce Poise Alexander Nemerov
Read Until You Understand Farah Jasmine Griffin
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
Hail and Farewell Abby E. Murray
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder
Love in Exile Shon Faye
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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