Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

by Marisa Crane

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Our 23 Favorite LGBTQ+ Books of 2023: Them

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2022 James Quandt · Artforum
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 100 Albums of 2016 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
The Best Movies of 2023 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 30 Best Books of 2025 New York Post

Trending Works

George F. Kennan John Lewis Gaddis
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The Song of the Cell Siddhartha Mukherjee
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc Bruno Dumont
Mania Hamza
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Read Until You Understand Farah Jasmine Griffin
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
The Road to Unfreedom Timothy Snyder
Hail and Farewell Abby E. Murray
Love in Exile Shon Faye
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy

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