Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Hanif Abdurraqib: 115 Favorite Albums Of 2025
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by John Yau

Lists

Top 40 Poetry Books of 2012: Coldfront

Trending Lists

115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
20 Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
That Was Something Dan Callahan
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Mt. Marci Roc Marciano
I Am the Moon Tedeschi Trucks Band
Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Aux Pieds de la Nuit Nyx Nott
Des fantômes Faune
hexed! aya
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
XXX Danny Brown
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay

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