Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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The Hard Crowd

Essays 2000-2020

by Rachel Kushner

Lists

15 Favorite Books of 2021: A.V. Club
Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Favorite Movies of 2018 Barack Obama
Favorite Books of 2025 MJ Franklin
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Ride into the Sun Brad Mehldau
Exterminate All the Brutes Raoul Peck
Winged Victory Willi Carlisle
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sometimes I Think About Dying Rachel Lambert
L'Aventura Sophie Letourneur
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Enys Men Mark Jenkin
Slow Horses
Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death Creeper
Dreileben Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf, Christoph Hochhäuser
Weapons Zach Cregger
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton

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