Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Inkoo Kang: New Yorker: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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The 10 Best Books of 2024 Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2023 Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2022 Slate
The Best Books of 2020 Slate
The 10 Best Books of 2019 Slate

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Inkoo Kang · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
We the People Jill Lepore
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow

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