Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
In Review Online: Best Films of 2025
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Lists

The 20 Best Books of 2023: Esquire

Best Nonfiction of 2023: Electric Lit
The 45 Best New Books of 2023: Harper’s Bazaar

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Jen Cloher Jen Cloher
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
Strange Hearts Secret Cities
Getting Killed Geese
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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