Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2014
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2023
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Last Things

by Deborah Stratman

Appears on three lists

Best Films of 2024: Chloe Lizotte: Film Comment: Film Comment Poll

Favorite Movies of 2024: Sarah Welch-Larson
The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2023: Jordan Cronk

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Guardian
Top 50 Albums of 2012 Stereogum
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Albums of 2014 The Wire
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
25 Best Films of 2012 L Magazine
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2023 Mark Kermode
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved in 2025 Nicholas Quah · New York · Vulture
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times

Trending Works

Rock N Roll Consciousness Thurston Moore
Drive My Car Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
The Chronology of Water Kristen Stewart
An Elephant Sitting Still Hu Bo
Sanguivore Creeper
Robert Ellis Robert Ellis
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Truthers: Tiffany Dover Is Dead*
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) Questlove
Popcast
Treacle Walker Alan Garner
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Marigold James Hershberg

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