Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Fencing with the King

by Diana Abu-Jaber

Lists

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley
Elsbeth
Beginners Mike Mills
Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman
Monkey Man Dev Patel
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
The Glowing Man Swans
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
A Small Light
XXX Danny Brown
Syncope Asiya Wadud

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