Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2026
A.A. Dowd: Favorite Metal Albums of 2025
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On the Royal Road: The Burgher King [book]

by Elfriede Jelinek

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#4 Best Films of 2021: J. Hoberman: Artforum

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The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
Favorite Metal Albums of 2025 A.A. Dowd
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The Best Movies of 2020 Matt Singer · ScreenCrush
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times
50 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Alan Sepinwall · Rolling Stone

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For All Mankind
The Lowdown
PEN15
Reservation Dogs
Rain Cynthia Barnett
The White Lotus Mike White
What We Do in the Shadows
BoJack Horseman
The Underground Railroad Barry Jenkins
My Brilliant Friend
Station Eleven
I May Destroy You Michaela Coel & Sam Miller
Better Things
The Great

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