Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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by Wendy Eisenberg

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Top 20 Albums of 2024: Spectrum Culture
The Top 30 Albums of 2024: Jordan Cronk
The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Pitchfork
Albums of the Year 2024: Quietus

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The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
20 Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club

Trending Works

Des fantômes Faune
That Was Something Dan Callahan
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
Bird Andrea Arnold
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
“Vladimir Mayakovsky” and Other Poems Vladimir Mayakovsky
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
hexed! aya
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson

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