Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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David Sims: Atlantic: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2023
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2024
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Olive, Again

by Elizabeth Strout

Appears on five lists

Best Fiction Books of 2019: BookPage
The Best Books of 2019: O Magazine

The Best Novels of 2019: Vogue
Best Fiction and Nonfiction of 2019: BuzzFeed
Top Ten Books of 2019: Chicago Public Library

Trending Lists

The 100 Best Albums of 2023 Rolling Stone
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 David Sims · Atlantic
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The Top 25 Books for 2025 Christian Science Monitor
Top 50 Albums of 2024 The Wire
Top 11 Films of 2012 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Albums of 2017 In Review Online
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Movies of 2025 Manohla Dargis · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Washington Post
Top Ten Films of 2018 Cahiers du Cinéma
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker

Trending Works

Cry Sugar Hudson Mohawke
Red Rooms Pascal Plante
Trifle Lone Taxidermist
Earthling Eddie Vedder
Elixa Th Blisks
Burning Lee Chang-dong
Synonyms Nadav Lapid
$ad Boyz 4 Life II Junior H
A Better Ghost Jeremy Cunningham / Dustin Laurenzi / Paul Bryan
Pauline Kael Brian Kellow
DX Friendzone
Blackstar David Bowie
Sudan Archives Sudan Archives
4L Yeat

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