Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Lists

Top 10 Poetry Books of 2021: Maggie Smith: Whittier Daily News

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

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Our Top Films of 2025 The Next Picture Show
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 40 Albums of 2024 Decibel
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

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

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