Year-End Lists

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New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2021
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2022
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2024
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Hip-Hop (And Other Things)
- The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021: Powell's Books
Basketball (and Other Things)
- Best Books I Read in 2017: Barack Obama

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2015 Mojo
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
100 Notable Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Stephanie Zacharek · Time
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma

Trending Works

My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross Anohni and the Johnsons
Pina Wim Wenders
Quotients Tracy O'Neill
Please make me pretty, I don't want to die Tawanda Mulalu
Liberation Day George Saunders
Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista
Classic Objects Jenny Hval
Hex Dealer Lip Critic
The Great Southern Darkness Glorior Belli
The Books of Jacob Olga Tokarczuk
Either/Or Elif Batuman
The Other Two
The Holdovers Alexander Payne
Meek’s Cutoff Kelly Reichardt

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