Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger

Force Majeure
- The Best in 2020 Music: Steve Erickson: GCN Runner-up

Trending Lists

Favorite Films of 2019 Dan Sallitt
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2022 Northern Transmissions
Best Fiction of 2026 Goldsmiths Prize
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Better Things
Reservation Dogs
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
The White Lotus Mike White
Station Eleven
For All Mankind
What We Do in the Shadows
The Great
PEN15
BoJack Horseman
I May Destroy You Michaela Coel & Sam Miller
My Brilliant Friend
The Underground Railroad Barry Jenkins
Mythic Quest

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