Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The 50 Best Podcasts of 2021: Atlantic

The 10 Best Podcasts of 2021: Reggie Ugwu: New York Times
The Best Podcasts of 2021: Sarah Larson: New Yorker

Trending Lists

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction from 2025 Washington Post
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
The 25 Best Films of 2022 David Ehrlich
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

The Other 2/5ths or: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Trench Baby!! Ghais Guevara
Viagr Aboys Viagra Boys
Too Much
Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye) Darius Jones
Big Time Angel Olsen
Việt and Nam Truong Minh Quy
Crick Professor Matthew Cobb
Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Oliver Coates
Massive Shoe Way Dynamic
Museum Music Edward Skeletrix
Edge of Tomorrow Doug Liman
At Fargrounds Jacken Elswyth
Deaf President Now! Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim
There Was, There Was Not Emily Mkrtichian

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