Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Lists

Fiction 2025: PEN/Faulkner Award
The 16 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2024: Them

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor

Trending Works

She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Succession
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Heart the Lover Lily King
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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