Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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Burning Boy

The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

by Paul Auster

Lists

The Best Books of 2021: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
The Kingdom: Exodus Lars von Trier and Morten Arnfred
Bird Andrea Arnold
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Boy Who Played the Harp Dave
Like a Ribbon John Glacier
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Eusexua FKA twigs
Death by Lightning
Life After Reid Davenport
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold

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