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
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Madi Diaz

Lists

Favorite Roots Albums of 2024: No Depression
The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
The Best Albums of 2024: Flood
The 80 Best Albums of 2024: PopMatters
Best Albums of 2024: Stereogum
Favorite Albums of 2024: Grace Robins-Somerville

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: NPR: NPR Music
The 12 Best Albums of 2024: Carl Wilson: Slate
Top 100 Albums of 2024: Under the Radar

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Weapons Zach Cregger
Spilligion Spillage Village
hexed! aya
Pillion Harry Lighton
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Misericordia Alain Guiraudie
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum

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