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
Rolling Stone: 100 Best Albums of the 2010s
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
- Fiction 2021: PEN/Faulkner Award
- Fiction 2020: National Book Award

Trending Lists

10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture
Top 50 Films of 2015 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2024 Consequence
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2017 Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
The Ten Best Films of 2025 Jeffrey M. Anderson · Combustible Celluloid
50 Best Released Films of 2011 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2016 Aaron Hillis · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll

Trending Works

The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
Sourcebooks Peggy Ahwesh
Forged Prescriptions Tony O’Neill
Adore Numenorean
Ears, Nose and Throat Kevin Jerome Everson
Bottle It In Kurt Vile
Reading the Waves Lidia Yuknavitch
Cartoons Kit Schluter
Uncanny Valley Anna Wiener
The Good Place
The Life of Chuck Mike Flanagan
The Errors Tour Brian Alan Ellis
Idiocy Pierre Guyotat
The Squimbop Condition David Leo Rice

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