Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2019
Laura Miller: Slate: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Refractive Africa
- The Best Poetry Books of 2022: Guardian
A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself
- Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019: Dennis Cooper
Across the Vapour Gulf
- Favorite Poetry Collections of 2017: Lit Hub
Alien Weaving
- 23 Favorite Poetry Books of 2016: Dennis Cooper

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
2011 Award The Booker Prize
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Laura Miller · Slate
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Things That Happened Before the Earthquake Chiara Barzini
Hostage Eli Sharabi
Post Pop Depression Iggy Pop
The Quest Daniel Yergin
The Antidote Karen Russell
A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth Daniel Mason
Haul Ass Road Hog
Indigo Dream E.M.M.A.
There You Are Joanne Kyger
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
The Trayvon Generation Elizabeth Alexander
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
More Pulp
Catching Ghosts Peter Brötzmann / Majid Bekkas / Hamid Drake

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