Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Blake Mills

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2020: Our Culture
75 Best Albums of 2020: Mojo
Top 100 Albums of 2020: Under the Radar

My Thirty Favorite Albums of 2020: Sheldon Pearce: New Yorker

Trending Lists

Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014 Tiny Mix Tapes
51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016 Tiny Mix Tapes
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2018 Tiny Mix Tapes
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Favorite 50 Albums of 2013 Tiny Mix Tapes
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015 Tiny Mix Tapes
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
50 Favorite Music Releases of 2017 Tiny Mix Tapes
Favorite 50 Albums of 2012 Tiny Mix Tapes
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Hijack
Death Farm Carl Hauck
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
John & Paul Ian Leslie
On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock
Le Kov Gwenno
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee
Catherine Called Birdy Lena Dunham
La 167 Farruko
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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