Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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- 50 Favorite Albums of 2012: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2026 Women's Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
Fiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
Defiance Loubna Mrie
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
Horses Jake Skeets
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Avatar: The Way of Water James Cameron
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
The Consciousness Instinct Michael S. Gazzaniga

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