Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Robert E. Lee

A Life

by Allen C. Guelzo

Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2021: Wall Street Journal

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Forever, episode "Andre and Sarah"
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Hour of the Predator Giuliano da Empoli
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
XXX Danny Brown
Alpha Julia Ducournau
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Andor
24 Frames Abbas Kiarostami
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Kahlil Joseph
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton

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