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
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Lists

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

Fiction 2022: PEN/Faulkner Award
50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021: Washington Post
100 Notable Books of 2021: New York Times: New York Times
Fiction 2021: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize
2021 Best Books: Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air
Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Liberation Day George Saunders
Ex Machina Alex Garland
Some Kind of Peace Ólafur Arnalds
Savage Hills Ballroom Youth Lagoon
Moonlight Barry Jenkins
XXX Danny Brown
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Broker Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Lowdown
Mad God Phil Tippett
Connie Connie Chung
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar

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