Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Bone of the Bone
- Best Nonfiction of 2024: Electric Lit
She Come By It Natural
- The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020: Time
- Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020: Lit Hub
Heartland
1. Best Books of 2018: BuzzFeed

Trending Lists

The 55 Best TV Shows of the 2010s BuzzFeed
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
25 Best TV Shows of 2018 Slant
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Paste
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Top 20 TV Shows of 2019 Decider
The Best TV Shows of 2019 Complex
Best TV Shows of 2022 BuzzFeed
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Speak To Me Julian Lage
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
1989 Taylor Swift
Agatha All Along
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
American: An Odyssey to 1947 Danny Wu
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
The Even More Freewheelin' Jeffrey Lewis Jeffrey Lewis
One Year: 1977
Interior Live Oak Cass McCombs
Trois, Deux, Un Juniore
Rental Family Hikari

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