Year-End Lists

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40 Best Albums of 2012: Sasha Frere-Jones: New Yorker

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The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
100 Notable Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
115 Favorite Albums Of 2025 Hanif Abdurraqib
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Laura Miller · Slate
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

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Haul Ass Road Hog
Elderflora Jared Farmer
There You Are Joanne Kyger
Finding the Mother Tree Suzanne Simard
Flung Out of Space Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer
The Antidote Karen Russell
Post Pop Depression Iggy Pop
1974 Francine Prose
Untethered Sky Fonda Lee
A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth Daniel Mason
Archipelago of the Sun Yoko Tawada
Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
The Sunflower Boys Sam Wachman
Collisions Alec Nevala-Lee

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