Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2023
Complex: 50 Best Albums of 2013
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Playlist for the Apocalypse

by Rita Dove

Lists

The Best Poetry of 2021: Boston Globe
Best Poetry Books of 2021: Publishers Weekly
100 Notable Books of 2021: New York Times: New York Times

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2024 Economist
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Albums of 2019 Pitchfork
The Best Films of 2025 Economist
The Best TV Shows of 2025 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Best International TV Shows of 2025 Mike Hale · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Treble
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
50 Best Albums of 2013 Complex

Trending Works

Mambos Levis D'Outro Mundo various artists
Norman Fucking Rockwell! Lana Del Rey
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi Jafar Panahi
Incident in a Ghostland Pascal Laugier
The Onania Club Tom Six
A Flower Traveled in My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland
A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974) Les Blank
The Hours: Morning Cautious Clay
Francofonia Aleksandr Sokurov
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Mary Bronstein
The Universe Smiles upon You Khruangbin
The Missing Picture Rithy Panh
The Serpent
Western Valeska Grisebach

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