Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Atlantic: The Best Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Novelist as a Vocation

by Haruki Murakami

Lists

The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022: Esquire

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
Top 50 Albums of 2024 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 50 Best Movies of 2024 Guardian
The Best Books of 2023 Economist
The Best Books of 2025 Atlantic

Trending Works

It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Empire of AI Karen Hao
False Dawn George Selgin
The Shrouds David Cronenberg
KICK ii Arca
Vortex Gaspar Noé
Strange Conversation Mandy Barnett
Portrait of My Heart Spellling
The Rabbit Hutch Tess Gunty
XXX Danny Brown
Giant Beauty [Ahmed]
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
Stage Four Touché Amoré
KicK iii Arca

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