Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Best Novels of 2024: Electric Lit
Best Literary Fiction of 2024: Library Journal
38 Favorite Books of 2024: Lit Hub
The 10 Best Books of 2024: Wall Street Journal

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Ann Hornaday · Washington Post
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

The Irishman Martin Scorsese
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately Perfume Genius
Urchin Harris Dickinson
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman
Body Talk Robyn
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
The Antidote Karen Russell
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Cleanness Garth Greenwell
Hallow Road Babak Anvari

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