Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
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by Joy Oladokun

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Consequence
123 Favorite Albums Of 2024: Hanif Abdurraqib
The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters

Best Southern Albums of 2024: Bitter Southerner

Trending Lists

Best Albums of 2023 Folk Alley
Top 10 Books of 2021 Michael Silverblatt · KCRW
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2019 Brooklyn Vegan
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
10 of the Best Books of 2024 Christopher Borrelli · Chicago Tribune
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Books of 2019 Michael Silverblatt · KCRW
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Doris Earl Sweatshirt
Return to Seoul Davy Chou
Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here Friko
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Tomas Alfredson
Wake Up Dead Man Rian Johnson
Miroirs No. 3 Christian Petzold
Sore Thumb Oso Oso
Heavy Metal Cameron Winter
Giant Beauty [Ahmed]
Eusexua FKA twigs
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Anti Rihanna
The world within our bedrooms Drug Store Romeos

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