Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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In holiday clothing, out of the great darkness
- Best Albums of 2025: NPR: NPR Music
The experience of repetition as death
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Tatsuya Yoshihara
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
Horse Money Pedro Costa
A Moment in the Sun John Sayles
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Margin Call J.C. Chandor
Mad Max: Fury Road George Miller
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Buck Cindy Meehl
The Love That Remains Hlynur Pálmason
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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