Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025 Award
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by Darrin Bell

Lists

10 Best Books of 2023: Publishers Weekly
Top 10 Books of 2023: Chicago Public Library
2023 Best Books of the Year: Shelf Awareness

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Los Thuthanaka Los Thuthanaka
Sinners Ryan Coogler
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Urchin Harris Dickinson
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Predators David Osit
Boom Town Sam Anderson

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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