Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
In Review Online: Best Films of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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Top 10 Albums of 2021: Bob Boilen: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Films of 2025 Film Stage
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Ruth Kate Riley
XXX Danny Brown
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Southernmost Leo Boix
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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