Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Lists

The Best Podcasts of 2023: Mara Davis: Paste
The Best Podcasts of 2021: New York: Vulture Podcast Survey

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The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
20 Best Films of 2012 A.V. Club
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 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Alan Sepinwall
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Strangers and Intimates Tiffany Jenkins
Aux Pieds de la Nuit Nyx Nott
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
That Was Something Dan Callahan
hexed! aya
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
XXX Danny Brown
A House of Dynamite Kathryn Bigelow
I Am the Moon Tedeschi Trucks Band
Des fantômes Faune
World Wide Pop Superorganism
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada

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