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
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Cory Woodroof: USA Today: The 15 Best Films of 2025
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The Yossarians

Ambition Will Eat Itself
1. Albums of the Year 2018: Quietus
Fabric of Time
1. Top 100 Albums of 2017: Quietus

Trending Lists

Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Cory Woodroof · USA Today · For the Win
2025 Award Dylan Thomas Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
XXX Danny Brown
Ad Astra James Gray
The Poems of Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Southernmost Leo Boix
Saint Omer Alice Diop
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
PC Music x DISown Radio PC Music

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