Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Exclaim: 50 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Economist: The Best Podcasts of 2022

25 November 2022

Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV

The Economist: The Best Podcasts of 2022

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023]

Can I tell you a secret?
Death of an Artist: The Ana Mendieta and Carl Andre Story
Ghost Church by Jamie Loftus
How We Survive
Not Lost
The Run-Up
Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV
Wild Boys
Will Be Wild
We Were Three

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
50 Best Albums of 2025 Exclaim
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
50 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2022 Loudwire
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take

Trending Works

Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Exterminate All the Brutes Raoul Peck
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Slow Horses
Weapons Zach Cregger
Fargo
Ride into the Sun Brad Mehldau
Winged Victory Willi Carlisle
Sometimes I Think About Dying Rachel Lambert
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Dreileben Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf, Christoph Hochhäuser
Enys Men Mark Jenkin
Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death Creeper

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