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
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1. 100 Favorite Albums of 2022: Hanif Abdurraqib
- The Best Emo Albums Of 2022: Ian Cohen: Uproxx

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Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Getting Killed Geese
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Ad Astra James Gray
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Saint Omer Alice Diop
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
Southernmost Leo Boix
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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