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
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2019: Entropy

14 Unmissable Poetry Books from 2019: Christina Orlando: Electric Lit

Trending Lists

The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Stereogum
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best International TV Shows of 2024 Mike Hale · New York Times

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Nosferatu Robert Eggers
The Tsar of Love and Techno Anthony Marra
Crows In The Basilica Chuck Johnson
Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984 The Inward Circles
Tár Todd Field
Sticker NCT 127
XXX Danny Brown
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Elle Paul Verhoeven
Civil War Alex Garland
The Beast Bertrand Bonello
And Right Lines Limit and Close All Bodies The Inward Circles
Eddington Ari Aster

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