Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

16 Best Movies of 2016: Eric Kohn: IndieWire

20 Best Movies of 2016: David Edelstein: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2023 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Nine Inch Nails
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
The Lowdown
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
Into the Morning Grace Vonderkuhn
XXX Danny Brown
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Living in a Glass House Makin' Out
Girl with Basket of Fruit Xiu Xiu
Life After Reid Davenport
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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