Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Nonfiction 2025
Dublin Literary Award: 2025
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Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma

FRKWYS, Vol. 12 – We Know Each Other Somehow
1. Top 100 Albums of 2015: Quietus
- 89 Favorite Albums of 2015: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
50 Best Albums of 2015 Complex
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 NME
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Path of Totality Niina Pollari
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Songbird Waylon Jennings
The Good Mothers
All The Poems Stevie Smith
A Pillow Book Suzanne Buffam
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Mutual Interest Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Fallen Angels Bob Dylan
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
The Things We Say, the Things We Do Emmanuel Mouret
In the Same Light Wong May (translator)
Mothman Apologia Robert Wood Lynn

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