Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The 75 Best Albums of 2021: PopMatters

2021 Albums of the Year: Atwood Magazine
Albums of 2021: Dork

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

XXX Danny Brown
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
Tranquilizer Oneohtrix Point Never
The Lowdown
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Nine Inch Nails
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
Into the Morning Grace Vonderkuhn
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Fatherhood Augustine Sedgewick

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