Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Year of Blue Water

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Lists

Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2019: Entropy

10 Great Poetry Collections You May Have Missed: Anthony Frame: Chicago Review of Books
Best Poetry Books of 2019: New York Public Library

Trending Lists

Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

Chokepoints Edward Fishman
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
I Swear Kirk Jones
The Long Walk Francis Lawrence
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Face Down in the Garden Tennis
Hi Texas
Second Mansions Le Concorde
American Crime Story
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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