Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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100 Favorite Albums of 2016: Sasha Frere-Jones

Trending Lists

Top 100 Albums of 2017 Village Voice · Pazz & Jop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
Best Fiction of 2025 Maria Crawford · Financial Times
The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s Paste
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2024 A.V. Club
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Films of 2025 A.A. Dowd
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2024 Loudwire

Trending Works

Who Is Government? Michael Lewis
Invention Courtney Stephens
Son of Saul László Nemes
Sex Education
Spotlight Tom McCarthy
The English Hugo Blick
The House That Jack Built Lars von Trier
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The Chronology of Water Kristen Stewart
The Video Archives Podcast with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Dean Fleischer Camp
Scratch & Win
All the Cities of the North Dane Komljen
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist

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