Greetings from Read Max HQ, and welcome to our weekly roundup column. This week’s is the year-end READ MAX AWARDS EDITION , featuring previous selections from the Read Max Roundups given important year-end awards like:

• Best book I read all year


• Best alternate histories I read this year whose counterfactuals turn on the Columbian Exchange


• Best looming

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In no particular order, these are ten albums released this year that I enjoyed. Are they the best? I dunno. Who cares? I don’t want to argue or invite discussion about that sort of thing. I do, however, want to introduce people to music they might not otherwise hear.