Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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Heavy

An American Memoir

by Kiese Laymon

Lists

Best Books of 2018: Entropy
10 Best Books of 2018: Entertainment Weekly
Best Books of 2018: BuzzFeed

10 Best Books of 2018: Laura Winnick: Broadly
Top 10 Books of 2018: San Francisco Chronicle
10 Best Books of 2018: Chicago Public Library
100 Notable Books of 2018: New York Times: New York Times
10 Best Books of 2018: Publishers Weekly
100 Notable Books of 2018: Washington Post
Best Nonfiction of 2018: Powell's Books
Nonfiction 2018: Kirkus Reviews: Kirkus Prize

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Slant
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

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

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