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
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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The Million Things That Never Happened

by Billy Bragg

Lists

Top 10 Albums of 2021: Carl Wilson: Slate

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best TV Shows & Mini-Series of the Decade The Playlist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
Top 10 Movies of 2011 Dana Stevens · Slate
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman
Getting Killed Geese
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
Civil War Alex Garland
Hamnet Chloé Zhao
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Looper Rian Johnson
Beginners Mike Mills
The Summer is Gone Zhang Dalei
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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