Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Barack Obama: Favorite Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
A.S. Hamrah: n+1: The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024
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Lists

The Best Books of 2025: Emma Alpern: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024 A.S. Hamrah · n+1
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2024 Jon Pareles · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2018 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Playboi Carti Playboi Carti
The House Rabbit of Jesus Green Richard Thomas
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy
Oslo, August 31st Joachim Trier
Allies at War Tim Bouverie
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Twin Peaks: The Return David Lynch

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