Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Robert Christgau: Dean's List 2025
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The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

by Frances Wilson

Lists

The Best Books of 2021: Hillary Kelly: New York: Vulture
Best Books of 2021: New Statesman

Trending Lists

Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2015 Tiny Mix Tapes
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2014 Tiny Mix Tapes
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Favorite 50 Albums of 2013 Tiny Mix Tapes
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Favorite 50 Music Releases of 2018 Tiny Mix Tapes
The 20 Best Movies of 2025 David Fear · Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
21 Best TV Shows of 2016 Alan Sepinwall · Uproxx
50 Favorite Music Releases of 2017 Tiny Mix Tapes
Favorite 50 Albums of 2012 Tiny Mix Tapes
51 Favorite Music Releases of 2016 Tiny Mix Tapes

Trending Works

Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Highest 2 Lowest Spike Lee
Stronger Than the Truth Reba McEntire
Petite Maman Céline Sciamma
Christopher Rouse: Odna Zhizn, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 and Prospero’s Rooms New York Philharmonic & Alan Gilbert
Gladiator II Ridley Scott
Rakshak Bloodywood
Fin John Talabot
I Was Real 75 Dollar Bill
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
A Grain of Wheat Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Born to Die Lana Del Rey
Floral Shoppe Macintosh Plus

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