Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Maria Crawford: Financial Times: Best Fiction of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
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The 10 Best TV Series of 2021
The Best Television Series of 2020
The Best TV Series of 2019

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The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Movies of 2020 Eric Kohn · IndieWire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
27 Best Movies of 2012 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 40 Albums of 2012 Jim DeRogatis · WBEZ · Sound Opinions
The Best Movies of 2020 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Music for Shape-Shifters: Field Recordings from the Amazonian Lowlands, 1981-1985 Wakuénai (Curripaco)
The Whole Thing Is Just There Young Jesus
amor de encava WEED420
I Want to Live My Life Stars Hollow
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
August by Cake Guided by Voices
Heaven and Earth Kamasi Washington
$uccessor Dedekind Cut
Chromatica Lady Gaga
Toho Sara 東方沙羅 Toho Sara
Jinpa Pema Tseden
Prima Donna Vince Staples
Aura Reworks Hatis Noit
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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