Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Top 25 Albums of 2012: BBC: BBC Music

50 Best Albums of 2012: Q

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The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Paste
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Stephanie Zacharek · Time
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Vortex Gaspar Noé
XXX Danny Brown
Songs from Big Pleasant Big Pleasant
KICK ii Arca
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
In Heaven Mr Twin Sister
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Stage Four Touché Amoré
The Genius Myth Helen Lewis
Hyperyouth Joey Valence & Brae
Dept. Q
KicK iii Arca
The Rabbit Hutch Tess Gunty
Lorem Ipsum Jeff Jakobs

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