Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2020 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Golden Kylie Minogue
All That Reckoning Cowboy Junkies
The Raid 2 Gareth Evans
Bird Andrea Arnold
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
XXX Danny Brown
Cody Joyce Manor
The Power In Us Poppy Ajudha
Loop Brenda Lozano
Gentle Grip Public Practice
How Lovely the Ruins various poets, selected by Annie Chagnot and Emi Ikkanda
How the Word Is Passed Clint Smith
Island of Wings Karin Altenberg
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga

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