Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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H Is for Hawk

by Helen Macdonald

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Lists

15 Best Books of 2015: Maria Popova

10 Best Books of 2015: New York Times: New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2015: Vogue
50 Best Books of 2015: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Top 10 Books of 2015: San Francisco Chronicle
11 Best Books of 2015: Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air
Top Ten Books of 2015: Chicago Public Library
Nonfiction 2015: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize
2015 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Dolly Parton's America
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Tiny Dinos
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Pivot
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Staying Vertical Alain Guiraudie
The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
Alpha Julia Ducournau

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