Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
MJ Franklin: Favorite Books of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Daylily Called It a Dangerous Moment
- Favorite Poetry Collections of 2017: Lit Hub
- Best Poetry of 2017: David Orr: New York Times

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50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Favorite Books of 2025 MJ Franklin
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 100 Films of the 2010s In Review Online
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Soi Cheang
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Tár Todd Field
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Cyrano Joe Wright
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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