Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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The Radio Dept.

Clinging to a Scheme
1. 50 Favorite Albums of the 2010s: Jordan Cronk
Running out of Love

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2018 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize

Trending Works

Highway Thirteen Fiona McFarlane
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Arctic Passages Kieran Mulvaney
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Getting Killed Geese
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
Allies at War Tim Bouverie
Jen Cloher Jen Cloher
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Strange Hearts Secret Cities

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