Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Yoko Tawada

Archipelago of the Sun
- The Best Books of 2025: Economist
Scattered All Over the Earth
The Emissary
1. Best Books of 2018: Entropy

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Jen Cloher Jen Cloher
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
lode Gillian Allnutt
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
Highway Thirteen Fiona McFarlane
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Southernmost Leo Boix
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time

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