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
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2023 IndieWire
The Best TV Shows of 2022 IndieWire
The Best TV Shows of 2021 IndieWire
The Best TV Series of 2020 IndieWire
The Best TV Shows of 2019 IndieWire

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Teenage Matt Wolf
Sinners Ryan Coogler
XXX Danny Brown
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Passages Ira Sachs
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Galleons Rick Barot

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