Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Billboard: The Best 50 Albums of 2025
Kirkus Reviews: Fiction 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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The Best Albums of 2025 Sound Opinions
Best Albums of 2024 Sound Opinions
The Best Albums of 2023 Sound Opinions
The Best Albums of 2022 Sound Opinions
The Best Albums of 2021 Sound Opinions
The Best Albums of 2020 Sound Opinions
The Best Albums of 2019 WBEZ · Sound Opinions
Best Albums of 2018 Sound Opinions
The Best Albums of 2017 WBEZ · Sound Opinions
Best Albums of 2016 WBEZ · Sound Opinions
40 Favorite Albums of 2015 WBEZ · Sound Opinions
Top 40 Albums of 2014 WBEZ · Sound Opinions
The Best Albums of 2013 WBEZ · Sound Opinions
Top 40 Albums of 2012 WBEZ · Sound Opinions
40 Favorite Albums of 2011 WBEZ · Sound Opinions

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
2025 Dublin Literary Award
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

A Stranger’s Mirror Marilyn Hacker
Anna’s War Aleksei Fedorchenko
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas
Oracle Cate Marvin
Fingernails Christos Nikou
Sly Thom Zimny
Idlewild Idlewild
Blue Moon Richard Linklater
Diamond Eyes Deftones
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Half Eaten By Dogs The Serfs
The Sunshine Place
Man-Eating Typewriter Richard Milward
Sirāt Oliver Laxe

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