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
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Favorite Books of 2022: Salon

Best Nonfiction of 2022: BookPage
Favorite Books of 2022: San Francisco Chronicle
2022 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2024 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

You Could Make This Place Beautiful Maggie Smith
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
hexed! aya
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Cuddy Benjamin Myers
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Passages Ira Sachs
Every Kingdom Ben Howard
A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang

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