Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
New York Public Library: Best Books for Adults 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Heidi Julavits

The Folded Clock
1. 15 Best Books of 2015: Harper’s Bazaar
- 20 Favorite Books of 2015: A.V. Club

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Books for Adults 2025 New York Public Library
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 100 Albums of 2012 Austin Town Hall
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Fly
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
20 Best Albums of 2012 L Magazine
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's
The Furrows Namwali Serpell
A United Kingdom Amma Asante
Fucktoys Annapurna Sriram
Beside Myself DJ Haram
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
Twin Peaks (Music from the Limited Event Series) various artists
A Very English Scandal
Left-Handed Girl Shih-Ching Tsou
Bone Valley
Notes on Blindness Peter Middleton and James Spinney
Interview with the Vampire
On the Calculation of Volume Solvej Balle

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