Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

by Meshell Ndegeocello

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NPR: NPR Music
The Best Albums of 2024: David Hajdu: The Nation
Best Albums of 2024: AllMusic

Trending Lists

The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top Ten Films of 2024 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 15 Films of 2013 Matt Singer · The Dissolve
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
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
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Adults
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
Call Me by Your Name Luca Guadagnino
Black Box
Wild Houses Colin Barrett
XXX Danny Brown
The Dead Don't Hurt Viggo Mortensen
Dry Leaf Aleksandre Koberidze
Second Comin’ Korallreven
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
The Hate U Give George Tillman Jr.
Bad Mexican, Bad American José Hernández Díaz

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