Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Mercury Prize: 2026 Award
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Parrhesia
- 50 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2022: Loudwire
Weightless
- #14 Top 50 Albums of 2011: Guitar World

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2026 Award Polaris Music Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
Best Films of 2017 Ryan Gilbey · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Dean's List 2023 Robert Christgau
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant

Trending Works

Sins of the Leopard James Brookes
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Afternoons of Solitude Albert Serra
The Matter with Morris David Bergen
Mildred Pierce Todd Haynes
Pretty Red Dress Dionne Edwards
Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders
Cyan Blue Charlotte Day Wilson
Pigeon Alys Conran
Letters to Camondo Edmund de Waal
Beanpole Kantemir Balagov
Tabu Miguel Gomes
Mr. and Mrs. Doctor Julie Iromuanya
K Bernardo Kucinski

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