Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

The Very Best Books of 2023: Constance Grady: Vox
Our 20 Favorite Books of 2023: Vanity Fair

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top Ten Films of 2023 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
10 Best Movies of 2012 Atlantic Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

The Original Sound of Cumbia various artists
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Passages Ira Sachs
What the Constitution Means to Me Marielle Heller
Sun Cat Power
Fatigue L'Rain
-io Circuit Des Yeux
You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Getting Killed Geese
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
Renaissance Beyoncé

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