Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Wilmington's Lie

The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy

by David Zucchino

Lists

Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction: BookPage

Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020: Lit Hub
Best Books of 2020: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Hello Beautiful Ann Napolitano
Days Tsai Ming-liang
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth
Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman
A Small Light
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Pillion Harry Lighton
Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley
The Glowing Man Swans
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
XXX Danny Brown
Passages Ira Sachs
Four Daughters Kaouther Ben Hania

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