Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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50 Best Albums of 2017: Fact

Favorite Albums of 2017: Sasha Frere-Jones

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Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
25 Best Films of 2018 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post

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Bone Valley
Good One India Donaldson
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Interview with the Vampire
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
A Very English Scandal

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