Year-End Lists

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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1. Best 50 Books of 2017: Joseph Salvatore: Brooklyn Rail

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The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 55 Best TV Shows of the 2010s BuzzFeed
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 50 Best TV Shows of 2019 Paste
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

One Year: 1977
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Interior Live Oak Cass McCombs
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry
1989 Taylor Swift
American: An Odyssey to 1947 Danny Wu
Rental Family Hikari
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
Le Kov Gwenno
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Trois, Deux, Un Juniore

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