Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
The Booker Prize: 2026 Award
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Maria Popova and Claudia Bedrick (editors)

A Velocity of Being
- Favorite Books of 2018: Maria Popova

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
2026 Award The Booker Prize
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Poetry 2026 National Book Award
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Movies of the 2010s Paste
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Undun The Roots
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 12th Edition
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) Noah Baumbach
Seeing Ghosts Kat Chow
All the Moons Igor Legarreta
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
High & Low Caitlyn Smith
The Autodidacts Thomas Kendall
Overcompensating
Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman
Who Cares? Alexe Poukine
Get Out Jordan Peele
The Call Yannick Murphy
Spawning Season Joseph Osmundson

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