Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Villain I Never Was

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The 50 Best Albums of 2022: The Fader

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
2015 Best Books of the Year Shelf Awareness
The Best Movies of 2024 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
Magdalene FKA twigs
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Peter Hujar's Day Ira Sachs
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Song to Song Terrence Malick
Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Playground Laura Wandel
Why Nothing Works Marc J. Dunkelman
Yeezus Kanye West
Information Desk Robyn Schiff
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood Anna Hints
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay

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