Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The 80 Best Albums of 2022: PopMatters

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Favorite Movies of 2025 Barack Obama
Top 10 Albums of 2011 Claire Suddath · Time
100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Silence Is Loud Nia Archives
Last Leg of the Human Table Cloakroom
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl Rungano Nyoni
Spunky! Grrrl Gang
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... Steven Pinker
Dawson City: Frozen Time Bill Morrison
Suspicious Minds
The Lego Movie Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Noble and Godlike in Ruin Deerhoof
Paper Girl Beth Macy
A Sharp Endless Need Marisa Crane
Staying Vertical Alain Guiraudie
Natpwe: The Feast of the Spirits Tiane Doan na Champassak and Jean Dubrel
Palabras Manuales Danay Suárez

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