Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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King of Ashes

by S.A. Cosby

Lists

The 15 Best Books of 2025: People

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025: Time
Best Books of 2025: Book Riot
Best Books for Adults 2025: New York Public Library
The 10 Best Books of 2025: Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune
Favorite Books of 2025: Barack Obama

Trending Lists

80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of the 2010s RogerEbert.com
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Leaving Neverland Dan Reed
What Does It Feel Like? Sophie Kinsella
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Post Steven Spielberg
All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu
We Lived on the Horizon Erika Swyler
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
Boom Town Sam Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra

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