Year-End Lists

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New Yorker: The Best Books of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
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Little Rope

by Sleater-Kinney

Appears on seven lists

13 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Yardbarker
24 The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Albumism
37 The Best Albums of 2024: The Forty-Five
47 The Best Albums of 2024: Flood
55 123 Favorite Albums Of 2024: Hanif Abdurraqib
99 The 100 Best Albums of 2024: Rolling Stone

My Favorite Music of 2024: Steve Erickson Runner-up

Trending Lists

The 20 Best Podcasts of 2025 Guardian
11 Best Books of 2015 Entertainment Weekly
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best TV Shows of 2025 James Poniewozik · New York Times
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
10 Best TV Shows of 2017 Alison Herman · The Ringer
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire

Trending Works

Good Times! The Monkees
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
I Never Learn Lykke Li
Defiance Loubna Mrie
Seeing Ghosts Kat Chow
Horses Jake Skeets
Only Lovers Left Alive Jim Jarmusch
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
Islah Kevin Gates
Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot

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