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
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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1. Top 20 Movies of 2018: David Fear: Rolling Stone
- Best Movies Directed By Women in 2018: Valerie Ettenhofer: Film School Rejects

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2024 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2020 Justin Chang · Los Angeles Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Sometimes I Trip On How Happy We Could Be Nichole Perkins
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Fear of a Black Universe Stephon Alexander
Eddington Ari Aster
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
28 Years Later Danny Boyle
Boom Town Sam Anderson
La chimera Alice Rohrwacher
The Winter Soldier Daniel Mason
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Resurrection Bi Gan
Feu Nekfeu

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