Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
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Top Books of 2024 WBUR · Here & Now
Best Books of 2022 The Stacks Podcast

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2018 No Depression
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
Sport Powell
Boarding House Reach Jack White
Galore Oklou
1000 Forms of Fear Sia
May December Todd Haynes
Live at Wembley Stadium, 7/25/25 (Live Bootleg) Oasis
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold Dorothy Chan
End of the Middle Richard Dawson
Red Taylor Swift
The French Press Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
The Grand Budapest Hotel Wes Anderson
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