Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Evening in Paradise

by Lucia Berlin

Lists

100 Recommended Books of 2018: San Francisco Chronicle
Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2018: Dennis Cooper
Favorite Books of 2018: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2023 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Albums of 2025 Craig Jenkins · New York · Vulture
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
40 Best Albums of 2013 Guardian
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Drive My Car Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Transform Me Then Into a Fish Martin Carthy
All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade Of Monsters and Men
LOL: Last One Laughing UK
False Dawn George Selgin
Things in Nature Merely Grow Yiyun Li
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Li’l Quinquin Bruno Dumont
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Resurrection Bi Gan

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