Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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Simple, Sweet, and Smiling

by Kacy Hill

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The 100 Best Albums of 2021: Albumism

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
50 Best Albums of 2018 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 20 Most Essential Podcasts of 2025 Lauren Passell · Lifehacker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Albums of 2021 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME

Trending Works

The Twilight Zone Nona Fernández
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Sorry I Haven't Called Vagabon
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
Now Jazz Now Byron Coley, Mats Gustafsson, and Thurston Moore
Special Lizzo
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Holy Hell Architects
Beanpole Kantemir Balagov
Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino
In the Dark
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming M83
Beginners Mike Mills
Circle of Hope Eliza Griswold

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