Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2026
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Rituals of Power
- 36 Top 40 Albums of 2019: Decibel

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Movies of 2025 Guardian
Fiction 2026 Women's Prize
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The Best Albums of 2020 The Ringer
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork

Trending Works

London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
The Consciousness Instinct Michael S. Gazzaniga
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice
The Tsugua Diaries Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes
The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
2000 Meters to Andriivka Mstyslav Chernov
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin

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