Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Island of the Hungry Ghosts

by Gabrielle Brady

Lists

Favorite Films by Women in 2019: Kimber Myers
Favorite Films of the 2010s: Eric Allen Hatch

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
25 Best Films of 2018 David Ehrlich
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Beside Myself DJ Haram
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Bone Valley
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Ocean Vuong
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
A Very English Scandal
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Interview with the Vampire
How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue

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