Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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The Best TV Shows of 2024: Kelly Lawler: USA Today
The 15 Best New TV Shows of 2024: IndieWire

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Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Francesca David Murray Quartet
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Fingernails Christos Nikou
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
The Sunshine Place
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Clean Slate
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Idlewild Idlewild
Sly Thom Zimny
Liars Sarah Manguso
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko

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