Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Sean Fennessey: Best Films of 2025
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The 10 Best Podcasts of 2024: Eliana Dockterman: Time

The 10 Best Podcasts Of 2024: HuffPost
The Best Podcasts of 2024: Town & Country

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
Best Films of 2025 Sean Fennessey
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Fiction 2025 Kirkus Reviews · Kirkus Prize
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
100 Notable Books of 2018 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

What the Eyes Don’t See Mona Hanna-Attisha
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
Into the Raging Sea Rachel Slade
American Prison Shane Bauer
Morning Circle Basma al-Sharif
Hippie Food Jonathan Kauffman
Beneath a Ruthless Sun Gilbert King
The Secret Agent Kleber Mendonça Filho
Pavements Alex Ross Perry
Getting Killed Geese
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Exit Simulation Niecy Blues
Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi

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