Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2024
Gorilla vs. Bear: Albums of 2021
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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The Burning Girl

by Claire Messud

Lists

22 Best Fiction Books of 2017: John Freeman: Boston Globe
10 Best Books of 2017: Megan O’Grady: Vogue
36 Best Books of 2017: Los Angeles Times

Trending Lists

Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times · New York Times
Fiction 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Albums of 2021 Gorilla vs. Bear
Top Ten Films of 2020 Clémence Polès Farhang
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Albums Of 2023 Complex
Nonfiction 2025 National Book Award
Best Poetry of 2019 BuzzFeed
75 Best Albums of 2018 Mojo
The Best Albums of the 2010s Esquire

Trending Works

Shaneera Fatima Al Qadiri
John Candy: I Like Me Colin Hanks
Easy, episode "Package Thief" Joe Swanberg
KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere Nate Smith
Frankie Ira Sachs
Att. Young Miko
Could It Be Different? The Spook School
Hold Wild Nothing
Araf — Somewhere In Between Yeşim Ustaoğlu
Connie Live Low Cut Connie
Virtue Hermione Hoby
A Useful Ghost Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke
The Exorcist
She Taught Love Nate Edwards

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