Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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by Orville Peck

Lists

Best Music of 2022: Sasha Geffen: Artforum
Best Albums of 2022: Billboard

The Best Music of 2022: Steve Erickson: GCN
The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Boston Globe
Eight of the Best Queer Albums of 2022: Julie Gentile: Autostraddle

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 100 Albums of 2011 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
The Power of the Dog Jane Campion
Set My Heart on Fire Immediately Perfume Genius
Body Talk Robyn
The Antidote Karen Russell
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Urchin Harris Dickinson
Cleanness Garth Greenwell
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
Black Metal Dean Blunt
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Chokepoints Edward Fishman
A Man Called Ove Fredrik Backman

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