Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The 50 Best Albums of 2024: The Fader
Best Albums of 2024: Les Inrocks

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Into the Morning Grace Vonderkuhn
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
Tranquilizer Oneohtrix Point Never
XXX Danny Brown
The Mastermind Kelly Reichardt
Results Andrew Bujalski
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Glow On Turnstile
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau

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