Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Best Novels of 2023: Oprah Daily
The 20 Best Books of 2023: Esquire

Fiction 2024: PEN/Faulkner Award
Five Best Fiction Works of 2023: Bethanne Patrick: Los Angeles Times
Top 10 Books of 2023: Maureen Corrigan: NPR: Fresh Air
Top 10 Books of 2023: Chicago Public Library
The Best Books of 2023: Vogue

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Southernmost Leo Boix
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
lode Gillian Allnutt
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Getting Killed Geese

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