Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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by Elaine Castillo

Appears on three lists

Favorite Books of 2022: Salon

Best Nonfiction of 2022: BookPage
Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Emo Albums Of 2023 Ian Cohen · Uproxx
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top Ten Films of 2025 Tasha Robinson · The Next Picture Show
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Lamunan Antonina Nowacka
Mostly Dead Things Kristen Arnett
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
A Ghost of Caribou Alice Henderson
Mrs. Fletcher
Soft Fruit in the Sun Oliver Zarandi
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Heights of the Reeds Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang
New Energy Four Tet
A Different Man Aaron Schimberg
The Chronology of Water Kristen Stewart
Blackstar David Bowie
Katabasis R.F. Kuang

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