Year-End Lists

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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Surviving Autocracy
- Best Nonfiction of 2020: Powell's Books
The Future Is History
The Brothers
- Top 10 Books of 2015: David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times
Words Will Break Cement
- Best Nonfiction of 2014: Powell's Books
The Man Without a Face
- 7 Favorite Books of 2012: Tina Brown: Daily Beast

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Strange Hearts Secret Cities
Getting Killed Geese
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Arctic Passages Kieran Mulvaney
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Allies at War Tim Bouverie
The CIA Book Club Charlie English
Highway Thirteen Fiona McFarlane
Jen Cloher Jen Cloher

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