Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Christian Science Monitor: The Top 25 Books for 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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The Best TV Shows of 2025: Roxana Hadadi: New York: Vulture
The 10 Best TV Series of 2025: IndieWire
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025: A.V. Club

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025: Judy Berman: Time
Best TV Shows of 2025: James Poniewozik: New York Times
Best TV Shows of 2025: Robert Lloyd: Los Angeles Times

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Succession
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
Here Robert Zemeckis
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple

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