Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Iceboy Violet

The Vanity Project
1. The Top 50 Albums of 2022: Crack Magazine
2. Albums of the Year 2022: Quietus
Drown to Float
- The Best Music of 2021: Steve Erickson: GCN

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Pivot
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Tiny Dinos
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Dolly Parton's America

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