Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Complex: The Best Albums Of 2023
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50 Best Albums of 2025
Best 50 Releases of 2024
Top 55 Releases of 2023
Top 50 Albums of 2022
Top 50 Albums of 2018
Top 50 Releases of 2017

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The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 National Book Award
Best Poetry of 2019 BuzzFeed
Albums of 2021 Gorilla vs. Bear
75 Best Albums of 2018 Mojo
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Albums Of 2023 Complex
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Could It Be Different? The Spook School
A Useful Ghost Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
Easy, episode "Package Thief" Joe Swanberg
KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere Nate Smith
Shaneera Fatima Al Qadiri
Frankie Ira Sachs
Att. Young Miko
The Exorcist
She Taught Love Nate Edwards
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Araf — Somewhere In Between Yeşim Ustaoğlu
An Uneasy Inheritance Polly Toynbee
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed Meghan Daum
Virtue Hermione Hoby

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