Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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by Jim O’Rourke

Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2011: The Wire

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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