Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Best Books of 2020: Refinery29

Best Poetry Books of 2020: Publishers Weekly
Top 10 Poetry Books of 2020: New York Public Library
The Best Books of 2020: Dan Kois: Slate
Favorite Poetry Collections of 2020: David Gutowski
Best Books of 2020: Shelf Awareness

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Hands In The Air! Told Not To Worry
The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder
Love in Exile Shon Faye
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
The Song of the Cell Siddhartha Mukherjee
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
Missionaries Phil Klay
Acid Rap Chance The Rapper
Fierce Poise Alexander Nemerov
Hail and Farewell Abby E. Murray
Read Until You Understand Farah Jasmine Griffin
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Alpha Julia Ducournau

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