Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Best Books of 2025: USA Today

The Best Fiction of 2025: BookPage

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100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top Ten Films of 2025 Ben Kenigsberg · RogerEbert.com
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
The Best Books of 2024 Economist

Trending Works

Queen & Slim: The Soundtrack various artists
Train Dreams Clint Bentley
Thresholder Ian William Craig
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow Julia Loktev
Sorry, Baby Eva Victor
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Vida
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Dissolution of The Sovereign: A Time Slide Into The Future (Or: A Non-Abled Offender’s Exercise in Jurisprudence) Elysia Crampton
The Shrouds David Cronenberg
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Director Daniel Kehlmann

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