Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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The Best Albums of 2025
The Best Albums of 2024
The Best Albums of 2023
The Best Albums of 2022 Ranked
The Best Albums of 2021 Ranked
The Best Albums of 2020 Ranked
The Best Albums of 2019
The Best Albums of 2018

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Fingernails Christos Nikou
The Sunshine Place
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Clean Slate
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Idlewild Idlewild
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Sly Thom Zimny
Francesca David Murray Quartet

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