Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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End Terrain
- Favorite Music of 2024: Dennis Cooper
New Catastrophism
- Favorite Music of 2022: Dennis Cooper
Infinite Dissolution
1. 100 Favorite Metal Albums of the 2010s: A.A. Dowd
- 31 Favorite Albums of 2015: Dennis Cooper
The Clearing
1. Favorite Albums of 2011: Dennis Cooper

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
The 18 Best Novels of 2024 Sunday Times
The 10 Best Films of 2022 David Sims · Atlantic
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
50 Best Albums of 2011 Paste
50 Best Albums of 2012 Mojo
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

20 Days in Mariupol Mstyslav Chernov
Ghostroots 'Pemi Aguda
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Poor Things Yorgos Lanthimos
TransAtlantic Colum McCann
Both/And Denne Michele Norris (editor)
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
No Exit Damien Power
Mines Menomena
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Questlove
XXX Danny Brown
Brat Charli XCX
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
Andor

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