Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Guardian: The 50 Best Albums of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2024
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Optic Nerve

by Maria Gainza

Appears on three lists

Top 25 Books of 2019: Hyperallergic

10 Best Books of 2019: Publishers Weekly
100 Notable Books of 2019: New York Times: New York Times

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The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
Top 50 Albums of 2011 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Movies of 2023 Alissa Wilkinson · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Non-Fiction Olivier Assayas
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Questlove
Mrs. Fletcher
The Tree of Life Terrence Malick
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Shiva Baby Emma Seligman
A Prayer Before Dawn Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Andor
Ghostroots 'Pemi Aguda
Into the Amazon Larry Rohter
Puan María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat
Brat Charli XCX
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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