Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
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Abstraction Is Deliverance

by James Brandon Lewis Quartet

Lists

The 75 Best Albums of 2025: Mojo

Trending Lists

50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine

Trending Works

Interview with the Vampire
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Tár Todd Field
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
A Very English Scandal
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists

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