Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Dublin Literary Award: 2025
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1. The Best Films of 2020: Candice Frederick: Harper’s Bazaar
2. The Best Films of 2020: Harper’s Bazaar

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Our Top Films of 2025 Les Inrocks
2025 Dublin Literary Award
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
50 Best Albums of 2015 Complex
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Ghosts In The Burbs
Elatsoe Darcie Little Badger
The Good Mothers
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Path of Totality Niina Pollari
The Great Offshore Grounds Vanessa Veselka
Mutual Interest Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Songbird Waylon Jennings
Romance in Marseille Claude McKay
All The Poems Stevie Smith
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 Bob Dylan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Solutions and Other Problems Allie Brosh
A Pillow Book Suzanne Buffam

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