Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Face Down in the Garden

by Tennis

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Best Albums of 2025: Obscure Sound

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
2025 Dublin Literary Award
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Tiny Dinos
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
Staying Vertical Alain Guiraudie
Pivot
Mortal Trash Kim Addonizio
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Dolly Parton's America
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada

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