Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Albums of the Year 2019: Rough Trade

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Music of 2022 Jennifer Lucy Allan · Quietus
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo

Trending Works

Open City Teju Cole
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything Jane Wong
The Hate U Give George Tillman Jr.
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Weapons Zach Cregger
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer
Dry Leaf Aleksandre Koberidze
XXX Danny Brown
Music For Four Guitars Bill Orcutt
Revel in the Drama Ren Harvieu
Two Prosecutors Sergei Loznitsa
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski

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