Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: Top 11 Films of 2012
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Passenger

by Lisa Hannigan

Appears on two lists

Top 30 Albums of 2011: Hot Press
11 Favorite Albums of 2011: Bob Boilen: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
The 100 Greatest Albums of the 2010s Billboard
Top Ten Films of 2018 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor

Trending Works

A Better Ghost Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan
Blackstar David Bowie
Red Rooms Pascal Plante
The Empusium Olga Tokarczuk
Earthling Eddie Vedder
Burning Lee Chang-dong
Synonyms Nadav Lapid
$ad Boyz 4 Life II Junior H
DX Friendzone
Trifle Lone Taxidermist
4L Yeat
Pauline Kael Brian Kellow
Cry Sugar Hudson Mohawke
Sudan Archives Sudan Archives

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