Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Best 50 Books of 2017: Joseph Salvatore: Brooklyn Rail

Best Nonfiction of 2017: Powell's Books
Nonfiction 2017: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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