Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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The Great Awakening
1. Top 100 Albums of 2022: Under the Radar
Jet Plane and Oxbow
1. Top 100 Albums of 2016: Under the Radar
Animal Joy
1. 25 Best Albums of 2012: Slant
2. 100 Favourite Albums of 2012: Drowned in Sound

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2023 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Nine Inch Nails
XXX Danny Brown
Life After Reid Davenport
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
Fatherhood Augustine Sedgewick
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Into the Morning Grace Vonderkuhn
The Lowdown
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau

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