Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Wesley Morris: Grantland: Top 30 Movies of 2014
Film Comment Poll: 20 Best Films of 2014
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Lists

Favorite Albums of 2024
Favorite Albums 2023
Favorite Music of 2022 NPR · NPR Music
Top 10 Albums of 2021 NPR · NPR Music
Best Albums of 2019 NPR · NPR Music
Top Ten Albums of 2018 NPR · NPR Music
Top 12 Albums of 2017 NPR · NPR Music
11 Favorite Albums of 2011 NPR · NPR Music

Trending Lists

20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Top 20 Films of 2014 In Review Online
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland

Trending Works

Support the Girls Andrew Bujalski
Journey to the Mountain of Forever Binker and Moses
Hotel by the River Hong Sang-soo
Fleabag
Celestial Lineage Wolves in the Throne Room
Give Me Your Hand Megan Abbott
The Island of Missing Trees Elif Shafak
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World Radu Jude
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Materialists Celine Song
Weight For It
The Escape Artist Jonathan Freedland
Islah Kevin Gates
Little Fictions Elbow

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