Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Christian Science Monitor: The Top 25 Books for 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Albums of 2021: Gorilla vs. Bear

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

Trending Works

Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
Succession
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra

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