Year-End Lists

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
New York Public Library: Best Books for Adults 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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John C. McManus

Island Infernos
- 20 Favorite New Books of 2021: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly

Trending Works

A United Kingdom Amma Asante
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Interview with the Vampire
Bone Valley
A Very English Scandal
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Good One India Donaldson
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle

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