Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
David Ehrlich: The 25 Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Timothy Egan

A Fever in the Heartland
A Pilgrimage to Eternity
- 100 Notable Books of 2020: New York Times: New York Times
Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher
- 100 Notable Books of 2012: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The Best TV Shows & Mini-Series of the Decade The Playlist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2024 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Wilderness Angela Flournoy
good kid, m.A.A.d city Kendrick Lamar
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed Laura Poitras
Boom Town Sam Anderson
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Getting Killed Geese
From Ground Zero
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
hexed! aya
Looper Rian Johnson
The Wayfinder Adam Johnson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Impossible Fortune Richard Osman

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