Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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Lists

Fiction 2025: National Book Award
50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025: Washington Post
The Best Books of 2025: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
50 Best Albums of 2015 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
To Pimp A Butterfly Kendrick Lamar
The Lowdown
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You Ethel Cain
Insecure Men Insecure Men
Afterparties Anthony Veasna So
How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan
Gone Girl David Fincher
Tell Me How You Really Feel Courtney Barnett
The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies
HAGEN Titanic
Sable, Fable Bon Iver

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