Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
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Time Will Wait for No One
1. The 50 Best Albums of 2023: Yardbarker
Hummingbird
- The 12 Best Albums of 2024: Carl Wilson: Slate

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 25 Best Movies of 2025 IndieWire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Favorite Books of 2025 Barack Obama

Trending Works

On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle
Urchin Harris Dickinson
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Hallow Road Babak Anvari
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Soi Cheang
Tár Todd Field
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Bent by Nature

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