Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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1. Best Books of 2020: Fiction: BookPage
2. The Best Books of 2020: Real Simple
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020: Washington Post

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Favorite 50 Albums of 2012 Tiny Mix Tapes
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
50 Favorite Music Releases of 2017 Tiny Mix Tapes
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Death Farm Carl Hauck
Figure In Blue Charles Lloyd
Hijack
John & Paul Ian Leslie
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
La 167 Farruko
Catherine Called Birdy Lena Dunham
Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)) Jaimie Branch
On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock
Le Kov Gwenno
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee

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