Year-End Lists

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Best Albums of 2024: Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
50 Best Albums of 2015 Mojo
The 25 Best Films of 2024 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Bird Andrea Arnold
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
How Beautiful We Were Imbolo Mbue
Cody Joyce Manor
Gentle Grip Public Practice
XXX Danny Brown
Getting Killed Geese
All That Reckoning Cowboy Junkies
The Raid 2 Gareth Evans
Ology Gallant
In The Earth Again Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
The Power In Us Poppy Ajudha
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Empire of AI Karen Hao

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