Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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The 10 Best Podcasts of 2023: Eliana Dockterman: Time

The 10 Best Podcasts We Listened To In 2023: HuffPost

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The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Devil You Know The Coathangers
Long Story Short
No Matter Jana Prikryl
House and Land House and Land
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Noble Art Of Self Destruction Holding Absence
The Taste of Things Trần Anh Hùng
Mirage Colony N Chambers
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
God Said No Omar Apollo

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