Year-End Lists

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Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
NPR: Best Albums of 2025
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Travis Meadows

First Cigarette
1. 50 Best Albums of 2017: Uproxx
2. Best Albums of 2017: Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Trending Lists

Best Albums of 2025 NPR · NPR Music
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker

Trending Works

The Love That Remains Hlynur Pálmason
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Tatsuya Yoshihara
Alpha Julia Ducournau
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Buck Cindy Meehl
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
Horse Money Pedro Costa
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
House of Huawei Eva Dou
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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