Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
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The Hours: Morning
1. The 25 Best Albums of 2025: Evan Sawdey: Yardbarker
Blood Type
1. Top 30 Albums of 2018: The Wild Honey Pie

Trending Lists

Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 33 Best Podcasts of 2019 Wired UK
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Country Music Albums of 2025 Holler
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney
Not Tight Domi and JD Beck
Box for Buddy, Box for Star This Is Lorelei
Pig Michael Sarnoski
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) Jesse Q. Sutanto
Her Spike Jonze
Dry Ground Burning Joana Pimenta and Adirley Queirós
Libertie Kaitlyn Greenidge
The Sisters Jonas Hassen Khemiri
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Fargo
Xenotaph Fallujah
Promises Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra

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