Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Cloud Corner
- Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2018: No Depression
- Music I Enjoyed in 2018: Sasha Frere-Jones
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- 2013 Year in Review: Aquarium Drunkard

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Weapons Zach Cregger
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Open City Teju Cole
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Wild Houses Colin Barrett
The Hate U Give George Tillman Jr.
A People's History of Heaven Mathangi Subramanian
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Dry Leaf Aleksandre Koberidze

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