Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Horror

by Bartees Strange

Lists

Top 100 Albums of 2025: Under the Radar
The Best Albums of 2025: Jim DeRogatis: Sound Opinions
Best Albums of 2025: Northern Transmissions
The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters

The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
We’re Not Talking The Goon Sax
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Succession
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow

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