Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Dublin Literary Award: 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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by Hilary Leichter

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Lists

Best Books of 2020: Refinery29

The Best Books of 2020: Thrillist
The Best Books of 2020: Claire Fallon: HuffPost
Top 10 Books of 2020: New York Public Library

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
2025 Dublin Literary Award
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Movies of 2018 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Highway Thirteen Fiona McFarlane
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Arctic Passages Kieran Mulvaney
Strange Hearts Secret Cities
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Her Spike Jonze
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Sinners Ryan Coogler

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