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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
AllMusic: Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

Best 25 Poetry Books of 2017: Joseph Salvatore: Brooklyn Rail

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Albums of 2025 AllMusic
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 18 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2024 Them
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
Big Summer Jennifer Weiner
More Love, Less Ego Wizkid
Viagr Aboys Viagra Boys
The Big Five--O Derek Senn
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
Becoming Cousteau Liz Garbus
Velvet Was the Night Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Found Sound Faded
Confrere Poison Ruïn
Alabama Shakes EP Alabama Shakes
Resurrection Bi Gan
Music for a New Society/M:FANS John Cale

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