Year-End Lists

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2012
All Movies Music Books Poetry
Music
World Music - Goat

Top 100 Albums of 2012 Piccadilly Records

Music

50 Best Albums of 2012 Q

Music
Blunderbuss - Jack White

50 Best Albums of 2012 Mojo

Music
Lonerism - Tame Impala

50 Best Albums of 2012 NME

Music
Channel Orange - Frank Ocean

Best Albums of 2012 Guardian

Movies
Holy Motors - Leos Carax

Top Ten Films of 2012 Cahiers du Cinéma

Books
Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo

The 10 Best Books of 2012 Washington Post

Books
Bring Up the Bodies - Hilary Mantel

Best Fiction of 2012 The Booker Prize

Books
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller

Best Fiction of 2012 Women's Prize

Books
Catherine the Great - Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction 2012 Carnegie Medal

Books
The Forgotten Waltz - Anne Enright

Fiction 2012 Carnegie Medal

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