Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Threshold
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2022: Treble
Moksha
1. 100 Favorite Metal Albums of the Decade: A.A. Dowd
Pollinator
1. The Top 50 Albums of 2019: Treble
Qliphoth
1. Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015: Tiny Mix Tapes

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 In Review Online
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

lode Gillian Allnutt
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Irishman Martin Scorsese
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Getting Killed Geese
Southernmost Leo Boix
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music
Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt
Sinners Ryan Coogler
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie

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