Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Best TV Shows of 2018: The Playlist

Best TV Shows of 2018: NPR: Pop Culture Happy Hour

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

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Descent & Other Poems Timothy Ogene
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Shock Test…A Night of Truth: Bill Hicks & Timothy McVeigh Meet at Waco w/ Guest Lecturers: William Cooper & Ted Kaczynski Sean Kilpatrick
We the People Jill Lepore
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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