Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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I'll Tell You When I'm Home
- Best Nonfiction of 2025: Electric Lit
- The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025: Time
The Moon That Turns You Back
- Best Poetry Collections of 2024: Electric Lit
The Arsonists' City
- Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews
Salt Houses
- 30 Best Books of 2017: Christian Science Monitor

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
Thresholder Ian William Craig
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
Vida
The Shrouds David Cronenberg
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It's Time... To Rise From the Grave Undeath

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