Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Albums of the Year 2025
UK Albums of the Year 2024
UK Albums of the Year 2023
UK Albums of the Year 2022
US Albums of the Year 2021
Albums of the Year 2020
Albums of the Year 2019

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Dublin Literary Award
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Souleymane's Story Boris Lojkine
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt
The BPM Sudan Archives
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
Holy Motors Leos Carax
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Nocturama Bertrand Bonello
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson

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