Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Top 40 Albums of 2025
Top 40 Albums of 2024
Top 40 Albums of 2023
Top 40 Albums of 2022
Top 40 Albums of 2021
Top 40 Albums of 2020
Top 40 Albums of 2019
Top 40 Albums of 2012

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top Ten Films of 2011 Cinema Scope
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
50 Best Albums of 2015 Rolling Stone
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Insecure Men Insecure Men
Tell Me How You Really Feel Courtney Barnett
Be the Cowboy Mitski
Joy as an Act of Resistance Idles
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Utopia Björk
HAGEN Titanic
WTF with Marc Maron Marc Maron
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies
Bottle It In Kurt Vile
Afterparties Anthony Veasna So
Wide Awake! Parquet Courts
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Arctic Monkeys

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