Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Festival of the Dead
1. Top 100 Albums of 2014: Quietus
Afro Noise
1. Albums of the Year 2011: Quietus
Afro Noise I
- Favorite Albums of 2011: Sasha Frere-Jones
Afro Noise Vol. 1
1. 50 Best Albums of 2011: Fact

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Paste
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Consequence
The Best Books of 2024 Economist

Trending Works

The Genius Myth Helen Lewis
KicK iii Arca
The Boy Who Played the Harp Dave
KICK ii Arca
Dept. Q
Vortex Gaspar Noé
The Rabbit Hutch Tess Gunty
In Heaven Mr Twin Sister
Empire of AI Karen Hao
Flesh David Szalay
Stage Four Touché Amoré
XXX Danny Brown
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
What We Can Know Ian McEwan

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