Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Best Films of 2016: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky: A.V. Club

15 Favorite Films of 2016: Dennis Cooper

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
50 Best Albums of 2018 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork

Trending Works

Baby I'm the Wolf Ha Vay
Holy Hell Architects
A Star Is Born Soundtrack Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper
Now Jazz Now Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson, and Thurston Moore
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Dinner in America Adam Rehmeier
Beginners Mike Mills
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83
Beanpole Kantemir Balagov
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
In the Dark
Special Lizzo

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