Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Mike Hale: New York Times: Best International TV Shows of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
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The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2025
The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2024
25 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2023
50 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2022
The 66 Best Metal Albums of the 2010s

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The 55 Best TV Shows of the 2010s BuzzFeed
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 15 Best Films of 2025 Clarisse Loughrey · Independent
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

This Is the Sonics The Sonics
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
A Lifetime of Riding by Night Rhett Miller
House of Huawei Eva Dou
One Year: 1977
Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel Esther Perel
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
Drifting Laurent Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon
Speak To Me Julian Lage
1989 Taylor Swift
Interior Live Oak Cass McCombs
Le Kov Gwenno
American: An Odyssey to 1947 Danny Wu
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy James McMurtry

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