Year-End Lists

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The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Tiny Dinos
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Pivot
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade

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