Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Jon Pareles: New York Times: Best Albums of 2024
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2023
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by Charmaine Wilkerson

Lists

Our Favorite Books of 2022: Oprah Daily

The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022: BBC: BBC Culture
Favorite Books of 2022: Barack Obama

Trending Lists

10 Best Books of 2025 Publishers Weekly
Best Albums of 2024 Jon Pareles · New York Times
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 60 Best Movies of 2024 Max Cea · Esquire
The 10 Best Books of 2019 New York Times · New York Times
The Best TV Shows Of 2024 Uproxx
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The 50 Best Films of 2022 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 25 Best TV Shows of 2025 Consequence
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga
Brat Charli XCX
The Voice of Hind Rajab Kaouther Ben Hania
The Breaker Little Big Town
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street Marilyn Agrelo
Fiertés, inc. Thibault Jacquin
Declaration of War Valérie Donzelli
Patriot
Weapons Zach Cregger
Sentimental Value Joachim Trier
In the Summers Alessandra Lacorazza Samudio
Stranger Things
In Place of Monuments Naima Ramos-Chapman
1929 Andrew Ross Sorkin

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