Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Carolina Chocolate Drops

Leaving Eden
1. 75 Best Albums of 2012: PopMatters
2. Top 25 Albums of 2012: Engine 145

Trending Lists

50 Best Movies of 2011 Total Film
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
2025 Dublin Literary Award
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Twenty Thousand Hertz
R U Talkin' R.E.M. RE: ME?
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Binge Mode: Harry Potter
Western Valeska Grisebach
The Wolf of Wall Street Martin Scorsese
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Obscure with Michael Ian Black Michael Ian Black
My Dad Wrote A Porno
American Crime Story
Someone Knows Something
Gladiator
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Eric Appel
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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