Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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1. The 10 Best Country Albums Of 2020: Marissa R. Moss: Stereogum
2. The 50 Best Albums of 2020: NPR: NPR Music

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
It Follows David Robert Mitchell
The Poison Squad Deborah Blum
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Sinners Ryan Coogler
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
1Q84 Haruki Murakami
The Coddling of the American Mind Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Ends of the Earth Neil Shubin
Train Dreams Clint Bentley

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