Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Third Rainbow Girl

The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia

by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Lists

Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020: Electric Lit
100 Notable Books of 2020: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Favorite Novels of 2021 Electric Lit
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Diamond Eyes Deftones
Clean Slate
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Sly Thom Zimny
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
The Sunshine Place
Liars Sarah Manguso
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Idlewild Idlewild
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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