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
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
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Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real

Sticks and Stones
- 38 Best Albums of 2023: Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real
- 44 Best Albums of 2017: Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Movies of 2025 Guardian
Fiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Fiction 2026 Women's Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus
The Consciousness Instinct Michael S. Gazzaniga
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
The Monsanto Years Neil Young & Promise of the Real
Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
The Tsugua Diaries Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes
The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard

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