Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Best Films of 2022: John Waters: Artforum

The 20 Best Movies of 2023: David Fear: Rolling Stone

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Ten Experimental Films That Defined 2025 Michael Sicinski
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly

Trending Works

Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
Embedded: Alternate Realities
Bone Valley
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
A Very English Scandal
Interview with the Vampire
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou

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