Year-End Lists

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Best Nonfiction of 2023: Powell's Books

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100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Stephanie Zacharek · Time
100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Best Albums of 2015 Mojo

Trending Works

Classic Objects Jenny Hval
The Great Southern Darkness Glorior Belli
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
The Other Two
I Made a Place Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Liberation Day George Saunders
Black Swan Darren Aronofsky
Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista
Quotients Tracy O'Neill
Please make me pretty, I don't want to die Tawanda Mulalu
Prey Dan Trachtenberg
Either/Or Elif Batuman
Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross Anohni and the Johnsons

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