Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

The Best Books of 2021: Hillary Kelly: New York: Vulture

The 50 Best Books of 2021: Esquire
Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021: Lit Hub
50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021: Washington Post
Best Fiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Stereogum
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

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

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