Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Stephanie Zacharek: Time: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2023
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Three Rings
- Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020: Lit Hub
An Odyssey
- 30 Best Books of 2017: Christian Science Monitor

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2015 Mojo
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Stephanie Zacharek · Time
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

The Other Two
Classic Objects Jenny Hval
Please make me pretty, I don't want to die Tawanda Mulalu
The Holdovers Alexander Payne
Quotients Tracy O'Neill
Hex Dealer Lip Critic
Either/Or Elif Batuman
Liberation Day George Saunders
Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Pina Wim Wenders
Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista
The Great Southern Darkness Glorior Belli
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross Anohni and the Johnsons

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