Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Laura Dassow Walls

Henry David Thoreau

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The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
XXX Danny Brown
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Ad Astra James Gray
Saint Omer Alice Diop
Southernmost Leo Boix
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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