Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Dublin Literary Award: 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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by Maria Gainza

Lists

Top 25 Books of 2019: Hyperallergic

10 Best Books of 2019: Publishers Weekly
100 Notable Books of 2019: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
2025 Dublin Literary Award
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Path of Totality Niina Pollari
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
A Pillow Book Suzanne Buffam
The Complete Budokan 1978 Bob Dylan
Fallen Angels Bob Dylan
Mutual Interest Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
In the Same Light Wong May (translator)
Border Vista Anni Liu
Defiance: Fighting the Far Right
The Good Mothers
Songbird Waylon Jennings
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
All The Poems Stevie Smith

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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