Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Boston Globe: The Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2011
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Excavate!

The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

by Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley

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The 20 Best Books of 2021: Atlantic

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Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2023 Alissa Wilkinson · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2011 The Wire

Trending Works

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Small Fry Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Brat Charli XCX
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
Mrs. Fletcher
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Questlove
Into the Amazon Larry Rohter
Non-Fiction Olivier Assayas
Ghostroots 'Pemi Aguda
Puan María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat
Andor
A Prayer Before Dawn Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Shiva Baby Emma Seligman

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