Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Alan Sepinwall: The Best TV Shows of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
20 Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
That Was Something Dan Callahan
The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan
S***hole Country
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
hexed! aya
Bird Andrea Arnold
Des fantômes Faune
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski

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