Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Lists

Top 40 Poetry Books of 2012: Coldfront

7 Best Small-Press Poetry Books of 2012: Michael Robbins: Chicago Tribune
8 Best Poetry Books of 2012: Michael Andor Brodeur: Boston Globe

Trending Lists

Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The 18 Best LGBTQ+ Movies of 2024 Them
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Albums of 2025 AllMusic
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

At Fargrounds Jacken Elswyth
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
Wild World Bastille
More Love, Less Ego Wizkid
The Baby-Sitters Club
Typhoons Royal Blood
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Becoming Cousteau Liz Garbus
Found Sound Faded
Varmints Anna Meredith
9 Lives Koe Wetzel
3MEN2 KBRN Eladio Carrión
Crick Professor Matthew Cobb
Resurrection Bi Gan

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