Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Kerrang!
The 50 Best Albums of 2025: NME
50 Best Albums of 2025: Exclaim
The 50 Best Albums of 2025: Consequence

The Best Albums of 2025: Atwood Magazine

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Movies of 2020 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Marriage Story Noah Baumbach
Deadwood: The Movie Daniel Minahan
Afterlives Abdulrazak Gurnah
Steve Jobs Danny Boyle
The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons A.R. Ammons
Black Metal Dean Blunt
XXX Danny Brown
The Strange Little Cat Ramon Zürcher
From From Monica Youn
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The Delinquents Rodrigo Moreno
Asura
Dandadan
Assisted Living Nikanor Teratologen

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