Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Spring Grove
1. The 100 Best Albums of 2025: Our Culture
2. The 80 Best Albums of 2025: PopMatters

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 33 Best Podcasts of 2019 Wired UK
10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Second Sunday
Is a River Alive? Robert Macfarlane
Inheriting
The Traitors Circle Jonathan Freedland
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Until the End of Time Brian Greene
Trois, Deux, Un Juniore
The Art of Loving Olivia Dean
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
XXX Danny Brown
Lese Majesty Shabazz Palaces

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