Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Top Albums of 2013: Clash
Top 50 Albums of 2013: The Wire
Albums of the Year 2013: Crack Magazine

The 72 Best Albums of the 2010s: Mixmag

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

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Writers & Lovers Lily King
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Tomas Alfredson
Soul Music Special Request
The Cathedral Ricky D'Ambrose
1999 Joey Bada$$
Sore Thumb Oso Oso
The world within our bedrooms Drug Store Romeos
Eusexua FKA twigs
Where We've Been, Where We Go from Here Friko
Giant Beauty [Ahmed]
Miroirs No. 3 Christian Petzold
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Eliza Hittman
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Simone Felice Simone Felice

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