Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Top 10 Poetry Books of 2021: Maggie Smith: Whittier Daily News

Best Poetry of 2021: New York Public Library
Best Poetry Books of 2021: Publishers Weekly
The Best Poetry of 2021: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Open City Teju Cole
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
When We Were Birds Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
The Hate U Give George Tillman Jr.
Black Box
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Second Comin’ Korallreven
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Wild Houses Colin Barrett
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk

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