Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kyle Smith: Wall Street Journal: The Best Movies of 2025
Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Lists

Best Southern Albums of 2025: Bitter Southerner

The Best Albums Of 2025: HuffPost
The Best Albums of 2025: Steven J. Horowitz: Variety

Trending Lists

100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Best Albums of 2025 Jon Caramanica · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Known and Strange Things Teju Cole
Martyr! Kaveh Akbar
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
Death Farm Carl Hauck
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
The Empire Bruno Dumont
Resolution 653 Instra:Mental
This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus
La 167 Farruko

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