Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Lists

Favorite Books of 2022: Salon

39 Best Books of 2022: Vanity Fair
Favorite Books of 2022: San Francisco Chronicle
Best Nonfiction of 2022: Powell's Books
16 Best Books of 2022: Constance Grady: Vox

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

American Eden Victoria Johnson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Succession
American Prison Shane Bauer
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade

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