Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Best Albums of 2025: Obscure Sound
The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Guardian
Albums of the Year 2025: Clash
Albums of the Year 2025: Quietus

Top 50 Albums of 2025: Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Albums of 2022 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 20 Books of 2017 Time
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
Embers of the Hands Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
House of Huawei Eva Dou
Le Kov Gwenno
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... Steven Pinker
Fargo
Eno Gary Hustwit
Trip Amie Barrodale
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry
Manning Fireworks MJ Lenderman

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