Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Clarisse Loughrey: Independent: The 15 Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Paste
25 Best TV Shows of 2018 Slant
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
The 55 Best TV Shows of the 2010s BuzzFeed
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Trois, Deux, Un Juniore
Speak To Me Julian Lage
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry
1989 Taylor Swift
Rental Family Hikari
Infinite Connections Jihye Lee Orchestra
One Year: 1977
American: An Odyssey to 1947 Danny Wu
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Interior Live Oak Cass McCombs
Interstellar Christopher Nolan

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