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
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Invisible Child

Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

by Andrea Elliott

Lists

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021: Annabel Gutterman: Time

Favorite Books of 2021: Barack Obama
100 Notable Books of 2021: New York Times: New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2021: New York Times: New York Times
The 20 Best Books of 2021: Atlantic

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
Motherland Julia Ioffe
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Resurrection Bi Gan
Zbig Edward Luce

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