Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Naomi Novik

The Last Graduate
- The Best Books of 2021: Thrillist
A Deadly Education
- 15 Favorite Books of 2020: A.V. Club
Spinning Silver

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
2025 Dublin Literary Award
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Tiny Dinos
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
Dolly Parton's America
Pivot
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada

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