Year-End Lists

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Manohla Dargis: New York Times: Best Movies of 2025
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The British Are Coming

The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

by Rick Atkinson

Lists

Best Nonfiction Books of 2019: BookPage

10 Best Books of 2019: Publishers Weekly
100 Notable Books of 2019: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
10 Best Movies of 2025 Odie Henderson · Boston Globe
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
50 Best Albums of 2018 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
Cerulean Salt Waxahatchee
Dinner in America Adam Rehmeier
Now Jazz Now Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson, and Thurston Moore
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
A Star Is Born Soundtrack Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Special Lizzo
Beanpole Kantemir Balagov
Wicked Jon M. Chu
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Weapons Zach Cregger
XXX Danny Brown

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