Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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S.E. Smith

I Live in a Hut
1. Top 40 Poetry Books of 2012: Coldfront

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME

Trending Works

A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Clean Slate
Sly Thom Zimny
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Oracle Cate Marvin
Francesca David Murray Quartet
The Sunshine Place
Idlewild Idlewild
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward

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