Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Highlights

Our Culture: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
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Willi Carlisle

Winged Victory
1. Holler: The Best Country Music Albums of 2025
Critterland
- NPR Music: Ann Powers: Top 15 Albums of 2024
Peculiar, Missouri

Recent Lists

The Skinny: Albums of 2025
Vulture: John Waters: The Best Movies of 2025
Holler: The Best Country Music Albums of 2025
IndieWire: The 25 Best Movies of 2025
Lit Hub: 43 Favorite Books of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
AP: Top Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
The Forty-Five: The 45 Best Albums of 2025
Coup De Main: The Best Albums of 2025
Treble: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Entertainment Weekly: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025
Our Culture: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: Alissa Wilkinson: Best Movies of 2025
New York Times: Manohla Dargis: Best Movies of 2025
Vulture: Jasmine Vojdani: The Best Books of 2025
Vulture: Emma Alpern: The Best Books of 2025
Time: Judy Berman: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025
New Yorker: Sarah Larson: The Best Podcasts of 2025
Vulture: Craig Jenkins: The Best Albums of 2025
Stereogum: The 50 Best Albums Of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Glide: 20 Best Albums of 2025
Gorilla vs. Bear: Albums of 2025
Loud And Quiet: Albums of the Year 2025
Consequence: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Quietus: Albums of the Year 2025
Vulture: Kathryn VanArendonk: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Vulture: Nicholas Quah: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Vulture: Jackson McHenry: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Vulture: Roxana Hadadi: The Best TV Shows of 2025
Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Vulture: Alison Willmore: The Best Movies of 2025
Vulture: Bilge Ebiri: The Best Movies of 2025
The Line of Best Fit: The Best Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: David Fear: The 20 Best Movies of 2025
New Yorker: Amanda Petrusich: The Best Albums of 2025
Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2025
Them: The 10 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows of 2025
Them: The 10 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2025
Them: The 32 Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2025
New York Public Library: Best Poetry Books of 2025
New York Public Library: Best Books for Adults 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Les Inrocks: Our Top Films of 2025
Les Inrocks: Best Albums of 2025
Time Out: The 25 Best Albums of 2025
Time: The Must-Read Poetry Books of 2025
Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Electric Lit: Best Novels of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
BookPage: The Best Nonfiction of 2025
BookPage: The Best Fiction of 2025
Electric Lit: Best Nonfiction of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
Electric Lit: Best Poetry Collections of 2025
TV Guide: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025
Chicago Public Library: Top 10 Favorite Books of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Financial Times: Maria Crawford: Best Poetry of 2025
Financial Times: Maria Crawford: Best Fiction of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
National Book Award: Fiction 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2025
National Book Award: Poetry 2025
Decibel: Top 40 Albums of 2025
Mojo: The 75 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Films of 2025
Rough Trade: Albums of the Year 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2025
Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2025
Jordan Cronk: Top Ten Films of 2025
Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2025
Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2025
Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2025
Women's Prize: Non-Fiction 2025
Women's Prize: Fiction 2025
Dublin Literary Award: 2025
PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2025
Dylan Thomas Prize: 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2024
Benoit Rouilly: Best Films of 2024
Jordan Cronk: The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2024
For the Win: Cory Woodroof: The Best 15 Films of 2024
Reverse Shot: Best Films of 2024
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2024
Sarah Welch-Larson: Favorite Movies of 2024
Polygon: Matt Patches: The Best Movies of 2024
Polygon: Tasha Robinson: The Best Movies of 2024
Under the Radar: Top 100 Albums of 2024
Cult MTL: Justine Smith: The Best Films of 2024
Far Out: The 50 Best Albums of 2024
La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Nicole Brenez: Best Films of 2024
Film Stage: Top 50 Films of 2024
Ryan Swen: Top 10 Films of 2024
Paste: Mara Davis: The Best (Feel-Good) Podcasts to Round Out 2024
Saige Walton: Favorite Films from 2024
Sean Fennessey: 100 Favorite Movies of 2024
La Internacional Cinéfila Poll: Best Movies of 2024
n+1: A.S. Hamrah: The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024
The Yellow Button: Kelsie Herzog: My Favorite Albums of 2024
Michael Sicinski: Twenty-One Experimental Films That Defined 2024
AnOther Magazine: The Very Best Films of 2024
Wallpaper: Nick Levine: The 10 Best Films of 2024
San Francisco Chronicle: Best Books of 2024

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