Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Post: The 30 Best Books of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2024
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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by Diana Evans

Lists

Fiction 2019: Women's Prize
Best Books of 2018: Katy Waldman: New Yorker

Trending Lists

The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post

Trending Works

The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Hail and Farewell Abby E. Murray
Love in Exile Shon Faye
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Alpha Julia Ducournau
George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
Mania Hamza
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
The Song of the Cell Siddhartha Mukherjee
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy
Read Until You Understand Farah Jasmine Griffin

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