Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2026
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Abscess Time
- 85 Albums of the Year 2020: Quietus
The Mother of Virtues
- 91 100 Favorite Metal Albums of the 2010s: A.A. Dowd

Trending Lists

Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Best Movies of 2025 Alissa Wilkinson · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The 30 Best TV Shows of 2024 Paste
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2021 Philip Horne · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
10 Best Books of 2016 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2024 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff
A Woman Of Endurance Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
StartUp
Nenad Mladen Bundalo
Disaster Nationalism Richard Seymour
Embedded: Supermajority
The Blood Is White Óscar Vincentelli
Backed Up
Black Cat Bone John Burnside
Aftersun Charlotte Wells
The Super 8 Years Annie Ernaux and David Ernaux-Briot
John of John Douglas Stuart
The Souvenir Joanna Hogg

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