Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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1. Best Books of 2011: Publishers Weekly
- 100 Notable Books of 2011: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Passages Ira Sachs
All-Night Pharmacy Ruth Madievsky
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
The Galleons Rick Barot
Bugonia Yorgos Lanthimos
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
XXX Danny Brown
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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