Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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NME: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Lists

The Best TV Shows of 2025 New York · Vulture
The Best TV Shows of 2024 New York · Vulture
The Best TV Shows of 2023 New York · Vulture
The Best TV of 2022 New York · Vulture
The Best TV of 2021 New York · Vulture
Top 10 Shows of 2020 New York · Vulture
The Best TV Shows of 2019 New York · Vulture

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 NME
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
10 Best Movies of 2025 Odie Henderson · Boston Globe
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

The Beast Bertrand Bonello
Dinner in America Adam Rehmeier
In The Earth Again Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
XXX Danny Brown
The True Story of Bananagun Bananagun
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
Empire of AI Karen Hao
Boom Town Sam Anderson
Weapons Zach Cregger
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
The Passionate Ones Nourished By Time
Cerulean Salt Waxahatchee
Wicked Jon M. Chu
Lux Rosalía

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