Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
In Review Online: Best Films of 2025
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Top 50 Releases of 2017: The Alternative

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Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
XXX Danny Brown
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Southernmost Leo Boix
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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