Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Atlantic: The Best Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Jason Moran

Lists

Top 21 Albums of 2017: Nate Chinen: NPR: NPR Music

The Best Albums of 2017: Carl Wilson: Slate

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Albums of 2025 Craig Jenkins · New York · Vulture
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2023 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Toni Erdmann Maren Ade
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
All is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade Of Monsters and Men
Resurrection Bi Gan
False Dawn George Selgin
Mark William Lewis mark william lewis
Nope Jordan Peele
LOL: Last One Laughing UK
XXX Danny Brown
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn
Li’l Quinquin Bruno Dumont
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada

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