Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Los Angeles Times: The 15 Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Dean's List 2022: Robert Christgau

Trending Lists

80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 15 Best Books of 2025 Los Angeles Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman
Beginners Mike Mills
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth
Monkey Man Dev Patel
Syncope Asiya Wadud
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Elsbeth
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
A Small Light
Boom Town Sam Anderson
XXX Danny Brown

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