Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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A Firmer Hand

by Hamish Hawk

Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2024: Slant
Albums of the Year 2024: Quietus
Albums of the Year for 2024: God Is In The TV
75 Best Albums of 2024: Mojo
Top 100 Albums of 2024: Under the Radar

Trending Lists

Top Ten Films of the 2010s Cinema Scope
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 Time
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
100 Best Albums of the 2010s Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best 50 Albums of 2025 Billboard
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone

Trending Works

Fatherhood Augustine Sedgewick
XXX Danny Brown
A Marriage at Sea Sophie Elmhirst
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
The Corporation in the 21st Century John Kay
Baldwin Nicholas Boggs
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Tranquilizer Oneohtrix Point Never
Into the Morning Grace Vonderkuhn
TRON: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Nine Inch Nails
The Lowdown
Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams

Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. Therefore, we make no tallies.

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