Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Rolling Stone: Movies: 2021

Top 25 Movies of 2021 K. Austin Collins · Rolling Stone
20 Best Movies of 2021 David Fear · Rolling Stone

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Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Greatest Albums of the 2010s NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times

Trending Works

Alive at the End of the World Saeed Jones
Bent Sørensen: St Matthew Passion The Norwegian Soloists' Choir / Ensemble Allegria / Grete Pedersen
Sinister Grift Panda Bear
Gloss Drop Battles
Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St Swamp Dogg
From Farthest Known Objects Surgeon
Into It with Sam Sanders
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On Franny Choi
Small Axe: Lovers Rock Steve McQueen
Pictures of Ghosts Kleber Mendonça Filho
What We Spend
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
The English Riviera Metronomy
Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Original Broadway Cast

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