Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Holler: The Best Country Music Albums of 2025
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The Best Books of 2019: O Magazine

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The Best Country Music Albums of 2025 Holler
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 33 Best Podcasts of 2019 Wired UK
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal

Trending Works

Land of Milk and Honey C Pam Zhang
We Should All Be Birds Brian Buckbee with Carol Ann Fitzgerald
Hit Man Richard Linklater
I Miss You When I Blink Mary Laura Philpott
Choke Enough Oklou
Her Spike Jonze
King of Kings Scott Anderson
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) Jesse Q. Sutanto
Beautiful World, Where Are You Sally Rooney
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
Pig Michael Sarnoski
Promises Floating Points / Pharoah Sanders / London Symphony Orchestra
Flesh David Szalay
Fargo

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