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
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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Afterlives

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Lists

Our Favorite Books of 2022: Oprah Daily

Best Fiction of 2022: BookPage
The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022: New Yorker
Favorite Books of 2022: Barack Obama
The 10 Best Books of 2022: Washington Post
100 Notable Books of 2022: New York Times: New York Times
The Best Books of 2022: New York: Vulture

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME

Trending Works

HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Clean Slate
Idlewild Idlewild
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Sly Thom Zimny
The Sunshine Place
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Fingernails Christos Nikou

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