Year-End Lists

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David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Hanif Abdurraqib: 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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The Kites

by Romain Gary

Lists

100 Notable Books of 2018: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Favorite Novels of 2021 Electric Lit
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Idlewild Idlewild
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Clean Slate
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
The Sunshine Place
Fingernails Christos Nikou
HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Liars Sarah Manguso
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Oracle Cate Marvin
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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