Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Albums of the Year 2013: Crack Magazine

42 Best Albums of 2013: Sasha Frere-Jones: New Yorker

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The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 Time
The Best Books of 2025 New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2021 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 Time
The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2023 Annabel Gutterman · Time
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Hallow Road Babak Anvari
Rituals Watchhouse
Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin
What We Can Know Ian McEwan
Rotting in the Sun Sebastián Silva
Tom Lake Ann Patchett
Mother Mary Comes to Me Arundhati Roy
The Thinking Machine Stephen Witt
The History of Money David McWilliams
The Holdovers Alexander Payne
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Orient Nicholas Gulig
Buckley Sam Tanenhaus

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