Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
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Smoke From The Chimney
- #54 The 75 Best Albums of 2021: Mojo
Bad Mouthin'
- #79 Best Albums of 2018: Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Hoodoo
- #80 80 Best Albums of 2013: Uncut

Trending Lists

Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
Essays One Lydia Davis
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Baldwin, Styron, and Me Mélikah Abdelmoumen
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
KPop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton

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