Year-End Lists

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Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
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Word: Best Albums of 2011

11 December 2011

The Word Magazine: Best Albums of 2011, unordered

So Beautiful or So What

Paul Simon
Smoke Ring for My Halo

Kurt Vile
4everevolution

Roots Manuva
Let England Shake

PJ Harvey
Long Player Late Bloomer

Ron Sexsmith
101

Keren Ann
Metals

Feist
Bon Iver

Bon Iver
The Whole Love

Wilco
An American Trilogy

Mickey Newbury

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The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
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Heart, Be at Peace Donal Ryan
Bottoms Emma Seligman
More Pulp
Foretold
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Nouvelle Vague Richard Linklater
Sex Education
Vortex Veering Back to Venus Mosquitoes
Flashlight Susan Choi
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Sirāt Oliver Laxe
The Gods of New York Jonathan Mahler
Parasomnia Dream Theater

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