Year-End Lists

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Essence: The Best Albums Of 2025

12 December 2025

Baby - Dijon

Essence: The Best Albums Of 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022]

Escape Room

Teyana Taylor
everything is a lot.

Wale
Baby

Dijon
Am I the Drama?

Cardi B
Let God Sort Em Out

Clipse
Beloved

Giveon
The Art of Loving

Olivia Dean
Fancy That

PinkPantheress
Live Laugh Love

Earl Sweatshirt
Black Star

Amaarae

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Results Andrew Bujalski
Tranquilizer Oneohtrix Point Never
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
XXX Danny Brown
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Inside Scientology Janet Reitman
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Into the Morning Grace Vonderkuhn

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