Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 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 2010s: 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

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

R.I.P. Actress
Five Seconds Flat Lizzy McAlpine
Glimmer Kimberly Shannon Murphy with Genevieve Field
Night Watch Kevin Young
Evangelic Girl Is a Gun yeule
The Waldheim Waltz Ruth Beckermann
The Seduction of Kansas Priests
XXX Danny Brown
The Leftovers
King Coal Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Avatar: Fire and Ash James Cameron
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Flesh David Szalay
Stubborn Persistent Illusions Do Make Say Think

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