Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Pitchfork: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025
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by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen

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The 15 Best Films of 2025: Cory Woodroof: USA Today: For the Win

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50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025 Washington Post
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

The Testament of Ann Lee Mona Fastvold
Eusexua FKA twigs
Like a Ribbon John Glacier
Getting Killed Geese
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
In Covid's Wake Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee
S***hole Country
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
Barton Hollow The Civil Wars
Russia's Man of War Cathy Scott-Clark
Bird Andrea Arnold
Valley of Forgetting Jennie Erin Smith
Sound of Falling Mascha Schilinski
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