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
Ben Kenigsberg: RogerEbert.com: Top Ten Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Rising Star

The Making of Barack Obama

by David Garrow

Lists

10 Best Books of 2017: Washington Post

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Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Thresholder Ian William Craig
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Shrouds David Cronenberg
Vida
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Dissolution of The Sovereign: A Time Slide Into The Future (Or: A Non-Abled Offender’s Exercise in Jurisprudence) Elysia Crampton
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Light Into Bodies Nancy Chen Long
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra

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