Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Paul Kalanithi

When Breath Becomes Air
- 2016 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best International TV Shows of 2024 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Civil War Alex Garland
Sicario Denis Villeneuve
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
Environments Rafiq Bhatia
Eddington Ari Aster
XXX Danny Brown
Nosferatu Robert Eggers
24 Frames Abbas Kiarostami
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
Crows In The Basilica Chuck Johnson
Tár Todd Field
American Fiction Cord Jefferson
And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies The Inward Circles
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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