Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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50 Best Albums of 2025
Best 50 Releases of 2024
Top 55 Releases of 2023
Top 50 Albums of 2022
Top 50 Albums of 2018
Top 50 Releases of 2017

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10 Best Books of 2012 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2020 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Rise and Kill First Ronen Bergman
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Succession
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
The Idler Wheel… Fiona Apple
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Boom Town Sam Anderson
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
She Has Her Mother’s Laugh Carl Zimmer

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