Year-End Lists

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Annie Dillard

The Abundance
1. 16 Favorite Books of 2016: Maria Popova

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Favorite Books of 2025 MJ Franklin
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Bridgerton
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Renaissance Beyoncé
Fatigue L'Rain
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
Getting Killed Geese
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Selected Poems Of Donald Hall Donald Hall
Passages Ira Sachs
What the Constitution Means to Me Marielle Heller
Brat Charli XCX
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
-io Circuit Des Yeux

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