Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Uncut: 80 Best Albums of 2025
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Best TV Shows of 2025: Kelly Lawler: USA Today
The Best TV Of 2025 With Lesbian, Queer Women and Trans Characters: Autostraddle
Best TV Shows of 2025: Nora Dominick: BuzzFeed

The 10 Best LGBTQ+ TV Shows of 2025: Them

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2021 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Poetry of 2019 Library Journal
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Couples Therapy
This Is Country Music Brad Paisley
Lonely People with Power Deafheaven
Oncle Jazz Men I Trust
NDN Coping Mechanisms Billy-Ray Belcourt
Beasts of the Southern Wild Benh Zeitlin
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City
XXX Danny Brown
Silo
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Anora Sean Baker
The Strange Little Cat Ramon Zürcher
Curb Your Enthusiasm

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