Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Earl Swift

Chesapeake Requiem
- Favorite Books of 2018: Smithsonian
- 100 Notable Books of 2018: Washington Post

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The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Greatest Story Never Told: Chapter Two: Bread and Circuses Saigon
Beside Myself DJ Haram
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Antidote Karen Russell
I Swear Kirk Jones
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer

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