Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2019
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2023
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Couch Slut

You Could Do It Tonight
Take A Chance On Rock 'n' Roll
1. The 50 Best Albums Of 2020: Stereogum
Contempt
1. 100 Favorite Metal Albums of the 2010s: A.A. Dowd

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Podcasts of 2025 Sarah Larson · New Yorker
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2015 Mojo
100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best TV Shows of 2023 Alison Herman · Variety
The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Please make me pretty, I don't want to die Tawanda Mulalu
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Prey Dan Trachtenberg
Either/Or Elif Batuman
Classic Objects Jenny Hval
I Made a Place Bonnie “Prince” Billy
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross Anohni and the Johnsons
Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt
Black Swan Darren Aronofsky
Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista
Liberation Day George Saunders
The Outsiders Eric Church
Somebody Somewhere
Quotients Tracy O'Neill

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