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
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mojo: The 75 Best Albums of 2025
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The 60 Best Albums of 2022: Josh Terry

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The Best Books of 2024 Economist
50 Best Albums of 2015 Rolling Stone
Top Ten Films of 2011 Cinema Scope
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
Be the Cowboy Mitski
Utopia Björk
Joy as an Act of Resistance Idles
Wide Awake! Parquet Courts
The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies
Insecure Men Insecure Men
Bottle It In Kurt Vile
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino Arctic Monkeys
Afterparties Anthony Veasna So
WTF with Marc Maron Marc Maron
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Tell Me How You Really Feel Courtney Barnett

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