Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
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Fela Kuti: Fear No Man

Lists

The Best Podcasts of 2025: Sarah Larson: New Yorker
10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025: Nicholas Quah: New York: Vulture

9 Podcasts That Made Us Stop and Really Listen in 2025: New York Times

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
123 Favorite Albums Of 2024 Hanif Abdurraqib
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Records of the Year 2011 Rise
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Temporary Happiness Mock & Toof
Silver Bullets Joe Swanberg
Getting Killed Geese
Outside Noise Ted Fendt
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus
Sub-Lingual Tablet The Fall
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Hustle Jeremiah Zagar
The Ugly Stepsister Emilie Blichfeldt

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