Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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by Anthony Chen

Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2024: IndieWire
The 25 Best Films of 2024: David Ehrlich

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Mortal Trash Kim Addonizio
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Tiny Dinos
The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Pivot
Dolly Parton's America
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
Alpha Julia Ducournau

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