Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Music I Enjoyed in 2018: Sasha Frere-Jones

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100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2019 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

All This Could Be Different Sarah Thankam Mathews
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Angel Down Daniel Kraus
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Radu Jude
A Different Man Aaron Schimberg
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Post Steven Spielberg
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
The Book of Disquiet Fernando Pessoa
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
I'm Still Here Walter Salles
Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology Willie Dunn
Heavy Metal Cameron Winter

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