Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The 13 Best Books of 2016: Harper’s Bazaar
The 20 Best Books of 2016: Entertainment Weekly

2016 First Novel Prize: The Center for Fiction
100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle
Best Fiction of 2016: Powell's Books
Top Ten Books of 2016: Chicago Public Library

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2013 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
Neither Heaven Nor Earth Clément Cogitore
All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Results Andrew Bujalski
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Unstoppable Tony Scott
No Other Choice Park Chan-wook
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Django Unchained Quentin Tarantino

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