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
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
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The Best TV Shows of the Decade: Darren Franich: Entertainment Weekly

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best TV Shows of 2023 Judy Berman · Time
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

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

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