Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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Seán Hewitt

Rapture's Road
- 2025 Award: Dylan Thomas Prize
All Down Darkness Wide
- 2022 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness
Tongues of Fire
- Best Poetry Books of 2020: Guardian

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Favorite Books of 2018 Smithsonian
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2013 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
American Eden Victoria Johnson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Lowdown
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
American Prison Shane Bauer
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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