Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Uproxx: Best Albums of 2021
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The Ground Breaking

An American City and Its Search for Justice

by Scott Ellsworth

Appears on two lists

Nonfiction 2021: National Book Award
Best Nonfiction Books of 2021: Kirkus Reviews

Trending Lists

50 Best Albums of 2018 Billboard
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Albums of 2022 Uproxx · Uproxx Music Critics Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
50 Best Albums of 2015 Fact
Top 10 Albums of 2021 Ann Powers · NPR · NPR Music
Fiction 2014 Women's Prize
2017 Award The Booker Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
Best Albums of 2021 Uproxx · Uproxx Music Critics Poll
The Best TV Shows of 2022 The Ringer
Best Fiction of 2016 Powell's Books
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop

Trending Works

Faithful Man Lee Fields
April Sara Nicholson
Gloss Drop Battles
Hidemi Patrick Shiroishi
Patch the Sky Bob Mould
Marigold James Hershberg
Golden Sings That Have Been Sung Ryley Walker
Leisure Seizure Tom Vek
Coming Apart Body/Head
Konkylie When Saints Go Machine
L’un n’empêche pas l’autre Brigitte Fontaine
The Pairing Casey McQuiston
Gag Order Kesha
Southbound Anjali Enjeti

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