Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2015: Jane Ciabattari: BBC: BBC Culture

50 Best Books of 2015: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Top 10 Books of 2015: San Francisco Chronicle

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
10 Favorite Books of 2025 Maureen Corrigan · NPR · Fresh Air
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Films of 2025 Film Stage
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Constellations for the Lonely Doves
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
The Skin I Live In Pedro Almodóvar
Nav Nav
Anora Sean Baker
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
Agenda Kate Nash
XXX Danny Brown
Why Nothing Works Marc J. Dunkelman
Blue Heron Sophy Romvari
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Luck and Strange David Gilmour

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