Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Lists

50 Best Albums of 2020: Exclaim

Top 20 of 2020: Folk Alley

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2023 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2022 Paste
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Colored Television Danzy Senna
Pins and Needles Natalie Hemby
The Big Bang Theory
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
Oppenheimer Christopher Nolan
Got to Be Tough Toots and the Maytals
Revenge Coralie Fargeat
WTF with Marc Maron Marc Maron
The Worst Person in the World Joachim Trier
The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies
Small Axe: Mangrove Steve McQueen
XXX Danny Brown
Afterparties Anthony Veasna So
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay

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