Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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in defense of my own happiness complete

by Joy Oladokun

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2021: Billboard

Ten of the Best Albums Released by Queer and Trans Artists in 2021: Abeni Jones: Autostraddle

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2023 Folk Alley
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
10 of the Best Books of 2024 Christopher Borrelli · Chicago Tribune
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2019 Brooklyn Vegan
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Best Books of 2019 Michael Silverblatt · KCRW
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Books of 2021 Michael Silverblatt · KCRW
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The world within our bedrooms Drug Store Romeos
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Tomas Alfredson
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Sore Thumb Oso Oso
Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here Friko
Stranger Fruit Zeal & Ardor
Miroirs No. 3 Christian Petzold
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
The Cathedral Ricky D'Ambrose
Eusexua FKA twigs
Heavy Metal Cameron Winter
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Giant Beauty [Ahmed]
For Crying Out Loud Kasabian

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