Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Enjoy Youth
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
Fun City
1. The 100 Best Albums of 2020: Albumism
Life Is Easy
1. The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s: Slant
Make Me Believe in Hope

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 15 Films of 2012 Cinema Scope
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo

Trending Works

Clean Slate
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Francesca David Murray Quartet
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Liars Sarah Manguso
Idlewild Idlewild
Sly Thom Zimny
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Diamond Eyes Deftones
A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
The Sunshine Place

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