Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Jon Caramanica: New York Times: Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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100 Favourite Albums of 2012: Drowned in Sound

50 Favorite Albums of 2012: NPR: NPR Music

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Best Albums of 2025 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
100 Notable Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Severance
The Gilded Age
Empty Netters
Portrait of My Heart Spellling
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
Hit Man Richard Linklater
Embers of the Hands Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
GNX Kendrick Lamar
Fargo
Evil Does Not Exist Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Enys Men Mark Jenkin

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