Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Jenny Xie

Lists

Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2018: Entropy

Best Poetry of 2018: Book Riot
The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018: Dan Chiasson: New Yorker
15 Poetry Collections From 2018 You Won’t Want To Miss: E. Ce Miller: Bustle
Favorite Books of 2018: Lit Hub
9 Best Books of Poetry in 2018: Meghan O'Rourke: New York: Vulture
Poetry 2018: National Book Award

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
Getting Killed Geese
Weapons Zach Cregger
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
XXX Danny Brown
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
The Antidote Karen Russell
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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