Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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Brandon Hobson

The Removed
- Best Literary Fiction of 2021: Library Journal
- Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews
Where the Dead Sit Talking
- Fiction 2018: National Book Award

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
XXX Danny Brown
Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Ruth Kate Riley
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Southernmost Leo Boix
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold

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