Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Stephen Harrigan

The Shepherd Children of Fatima and the Fate of the Twentieth Century
- The 35 Best Books of 2025: Adam Morgan: Esquire

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2015 Pitchfork

Trending Works

Sinners Ryan Coogler
Passages Ira Sachs
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
The Northman Robert Eggers
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
The Dinosaur Artist Paige Williams
XXX Danny Brown
A Written Testimony Jay Electronica
The Galleons Rick Barot
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan

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