Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Ramona Ausubel

Lists

100 Recommended Books of 2018: San Francisco Chronicle
Favorite Books of 2018: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 40 Albums of 2025 Decibel
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Noble and Godlike in Ruin Deerhoof
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... Steven Pinker
The Lego Movie Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
A Sharp Endless Need Marisa Crane
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
A Separation Asghar Farhadi
Suspicious Minds
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
Silence Is Loud Nia Archives
Last Leg of the Human Table Cloakroom
Be the Cowboy Mitski
A Seat at the Table Solange
Psychedelic Anxiety Frances Chang

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