Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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The 10 Best Podcasts of 2019: Time

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The 10 Best Books of 2024 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
123 Favorite Albums Of 2024 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Sub-Lingual Tablet The Fall
Hustle Jeremiah Zagar
Getting Killed Geese
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Félicité Alain Gomis
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
The Ugly Stepsister Emilie Blichfeldt
Room 25 Noname
Temporary Happiness Mock & Toof
Silver Bullets Joe Swanberg
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus

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