Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Renee Gladman

My Lesbian Novel
- 38 Favorite Books of 2024: Lit Hub
Morelia
- Favorite Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019: Dennis Cooper
Houses of Ravicka
1. Best Books of 2017: Entropy
Prose Architectures
- Favorite Poetry of 2017: Dennis Cooper
Calamities
- 23 Favorite Poetry Books of 2016: Dennis Cooper

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Like a Ribbon John Glacier
Barton Hollow The Civil Wars
The Kingdom: Exodus Lars von Trier and Morten Arnfred
Getting Killed Geese
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
Eusexua FKA twigs
Andor
Valley of Forgetting Jennie Erin Smith
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
Bird Andrea Arnold
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
Life After Reid Davenport

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