Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
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by Ken Pomeroy

Lists

Best Southern Albums of 2025: Bitter Southerner
The Best Country Music Albums of 2025: Holler

The Best Music of 2025: Carl Wilson: Slate
Top 10 Albums of 2025: Ann Powers: NPR: NPR Music
The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Josh Terry

Trending Lists

50 Best Movies of 2015 Paste
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors: A Past, Present and Personal Story Rachel Hewitt
Catherine Called Birdy Lena Dunham
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Le Kov Gwenno
Dan's Boogie Destroyer
Hunting Season Home Is Where
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Death Farm Carl Hauck
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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