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
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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Sigrid Nunez

The Vulnerables
- The 45 Best New Books of 2023: Harper’s Bazaar
- The Best Books of 2023: Vogue
What Are You Going Through
The Friend

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
King of Kings Scott Anderson
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Motherland Julia Ioffe
Zbig Edward Luce
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo

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