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
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The Best Podcasts of 2020: Sarah Larson: New Yorker
The Best Podcasts of 2020: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture
The 10 Best Podcasts of 2020: Eliana Dockterman: Time

Best Podcasts of 2020: Teen Vogue
Best Podcasts of 2020: Rolling Stone
The Best New Podcasts of 2020: New York Times

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

1Q84 Haruki Murakami
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Follows David Robert Mitchell

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