Year-End Lists

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Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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1. The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2024: Annabel Gutterman: Time

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The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

House of Huawei Eva Dou
You Didn't See Nothin
I’ll Be Gone In The Dark: The Podcast
Boom Town Sam Anderson
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Here Bas Devos
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Wander/Wonder Balam Acab
Getting Killed Geese
Dìdi Sean Wang
Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan
In the Dark
XXX Danny Brown

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