Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Valentine

by Elizabeth Wetmore

Lists

Best Books of 2020: Fiction: BookPage
The Best Books of 2020: Real Simple

50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020: Washington Post

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Get Out Jordan Peele
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Stillness in Wonderland Little Simz
Alpha Julia Ducournau
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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