Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Los Angeles Times: The 15 Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Grand & Arsenal

by Kerri Webster

Lists

Top 40 Poetry Books of 2012: Coldfront

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 15 Best Books of 2025 Los Angeles Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Beginners Mike Mills
XXX Danny Brown
Elsbeth
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
Meet Me in the Bathroom Lizzy Goodman
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
Plain Bad Heroines Emily M. Danforth
Lily and the Octopus Steven Rowley
A Small Light
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Monkey Man Dev Patel

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