Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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The Names

by Florence Knapp

Lists

Best Books of 2025: Martin Chilton: Independent

The Best Fiction of 2025: BookPage

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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