Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Other Slavery

The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

by Andrés Reséndez

Lists

100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle
Nonfiction 2016: National Book Award
The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s: Lit Hub

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2024 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Those Who Are About to Die Harry Sidebottom
The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
XXX Danny Brown
Alpha Julia Ducournau
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Antidote Karen Russell
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Let God Sort Em Out Clipse

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