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
Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Tell Me That Before
1. Top 102 Albums of 2012: Robert Christgau: Barnes & Noble Review

Trending Lists

Top Ten Films of the 2010s Cinema Scope
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Fatherhood Augustine Sedgewick
XXX Danny Brown
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Tranquilizer Oneohtrix Point Never
Into the Morning Grace Vonderkuhn
TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Nine Inch Nails
The Lowdown
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams

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