Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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All You Embrace
1. Best 50 Releases of 2024: The Alternative
This Place You Know
1. Top 50 Albums of 2021: Brooklyn Vegan
2. The 50 Best Albums Of 2021: Stereogum

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Movies of 2015 Paste
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
The Best TV Of 2025 With Lesbian, Queer Women and Trans Characters Autostraddle
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker

Trending Works

In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors: A Past, Present and Personal Story Rachel Hewitt
Death Farm Carl Hauck
To Smithereens Rosalyn Drexler
Le Kov Gwenno
Not My White Savior Julayne Lee
The Collapse of Everything Adrian Sherwood
Witness Kronos Quartet / Mary Kouyoumdjian
Catherine Called Birdy Lena Dunham
On Savage Shores Caroline Dodds Pennock
Hunting Season Home Is Where
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
Dan's Boogie Destroyer
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams

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