Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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The Ten Year Affair

by Erin Somers

The Ten Year Affair - Erin Somers

Lists

43 Favorite Books of 2025: Lit Hub
The 35 Best Books of 2025: Adam Morgan: Esquire

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2023 Guardian
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME

Trending Works

Endure Special Interest
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
La chimera Alice Rohrwacher
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
Boom Town Sam Anderson
28 Years Later Danny Boyle
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Resurrection Bi Gan
Nope Jordan Peele
The Winter Soldier Daniel Mason
Losing the Plot Derek Owusu
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Eddington Ari Aster
Fear of a Black Universe Stephon Alexander

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