Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Third Rainbow Girl

The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Lists

Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020: Electric Lit
100 Notable Books of 2020: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Stereogum
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

Crows In The Basilica Chuck Johnson
Civil War Alex Garland
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Eddington Ari Aster
Sticker NCT 127
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies The Inward Circles
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra
Elle Paul Verhoeven
A Moment in the Sun John Sayles
Nosferatu Robert Eggers
XXX Danny Brown

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