Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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by Sarah MacLean

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Best Books of 2023: New York Public Library

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The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Angel Down Daniel Kraus
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Radu Jude
The Post Steven Spielberg
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
A Different Man Aaron Schimberg
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Heavy Metal Cameron Winter
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology Willie Dunn
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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