Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
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Top 40 Albums of 2024: Decibel
Top 50 Albums of 2024: Brooklyn Vegan

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Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Boom Town Sam Anderson
See You in the Stars Lightning Seeds
The Director Daniel Kehlmann
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Omar El Akkad
Zbig Edward Luce
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Strangers in the Land Michael Luo
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
King of Kings Scott Anderson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Motherland Julia Ioffe
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams

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