Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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T. Kingfisher

What Moves the Dead
- The 10 Best Books of 2022: Christopher Borrelli: Chicago Tribune
Nettle & Bone

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Clean Slate
Diamond Eyes Deftones
The Sunshine Place
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Idlewild Idlewild
Liars Sarah Manguso
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Sly Thom Zimny

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