Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
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Albums of the Year 2020: Dork

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Best TV Shows of 2023 Judy Berman · Time
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize

Trending Works

Blue Moon Richard Linklater
The Sunshine Place
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Idlewild Idlewild
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Clean Slate
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Sly Thom Zimny
Liars Sarah Manguso
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs

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