Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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1. The Best Hip Hop Albums of 2020: Hip Hop Golden Age
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Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Beginners Mike Mills
The Glowing Man Swans
XXX Danny Brown
Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman
Syncope Asiya Wadud
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley
Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth
A Small Light
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Elsbeth
Boom Town Sam Anderson

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