Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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The Chosen and the Beautiful

by Nghi Vo

Lists

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021: Washington Post

Trending Lists

123 Favorite Albums Of 2024 Hanif Abdurraqib
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Dean's List 2010s Robert Christgau
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Félicité Alain Gomis
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Room 25 Noname
Getting Killed Geese
Wonderstruck Todd Haynes
Silver Bullets Joe Swanberg
Temporary Happiness Mock & Toof
The Dream My Bones Dream Eiko Ishibashi
The Ugly Stepsister Emilie Blichfeldt
Gladiator II Ridley Scott

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