Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Top 100 Albums of 2021: Under the Radar

The Best Albums of 2021: Dan DeLuca: The Philadelphia Inquirer

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The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
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 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The Raid 2 Gareth Evans
Pain and Glory Pedro Almodóvar
This Strange Eventful History Claire Messud
Checkout 19 Claire-Louise Bennett
Bird Andrea Arnold
Because the Boss Belongs to Us
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
Look Back Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Gentle Grip Public Practice
Loop Brenda Lozano
Universal Language Matthew Rankin
Invisible Child Andrea Elliott
So True with Caleb Hearon
The African Desperate Martine Syms

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