Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Boston Globe: The Best Books of 2025
Paste: 50 Best Albums of 2011
Economist: The Best Books of 2024
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When We Were Eating Unripe Pears
1. 75 Favorite Albums of 2012: Quietus
Elegy for Beach Friday
1. Favorite Albums of 2011: Dennis Cooper

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
50 Best Albums of 2012 Mojo
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
50 Best Albums of 2011 Paste
The Best Books of 2025 Boston Globe
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Films of 2022 David Sims · Atlantic
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist

Trending Works

Mines Menomena
Both/And Denne Michele Norris (editor)
Brat Charli XCX
Andor
Ghostroots 'Pemi Aguda
The Highest Exam Ruixue Jia and Hongbin Li, with Claire Cousineau
Alpha Julia Ducournau
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Questlove
XXX Danny Brown
No Exit Damien Power
20 Days in Mariupol Mstyslav Chernov
Mrs. Fletcher
The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
TransAtlantic Colum McCann

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