Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
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by Madison McFerrin

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Best Albums of 2025: KCRW
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025: Hanif Abdurraqib

The Best Albums of 2025: Steven J. Horowitz: Variety

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Shock Test…A Night of Truth: Bill Hicks & Timothy McVeigh Meet at Waco w/ Guest Lecturers: William Cooper & Ted Kaczynski Sean Kilpatrick
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
New Threats from the Soul Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band
Getting Killed Geese
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
We the People Jill Lepore
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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