Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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by Laila Lalami

Lists

The 15 Best Books of 2025: People

Fiction 2025: Women's Prize
The 17 Best Books of 2025 You Need to Read: Vanity Fair
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025: Washington Post
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025: Time
The Top 25 Books for 2025: Christian Science Monitor
The 35 Best Books of 2025: Adam Morgan: Esquire

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Operation Avalanche Matt Johnson
Surface Noise Judiciary
Three Girls from Bronzeville Dawn Turner
Dragon Peter Chan
Thirteen Lives Ron Howard
Revengeseekerz Jane Remover
Gemini Rights Steve Lacy
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
A Quiet Farwell, Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Eighteen Slauson Malone
Welcome 2 Club XIII Drive-By Truckers
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse
Patterns in Mythology Falls of Rauros
Bell Bottom Country Lainey Wilson
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei

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