Year-End Lists
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of notable year-end lists.
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National Book Award
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Nonfiction 2026
The Center for Fiction
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2026 First Novel Prize
Sight & Sound Poll
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The 50 Best Films of 2025
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2019 Books
New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2019
22 November 2019
The New York Times
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The 10 Best Books of 2019
Book lists in other years:
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2021
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2020
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
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2014
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2013
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2012
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2011
Also from
the New York Times
in 2019:
100 Notable Books
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Movies
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TV Shows
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Music
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Poetry
Fiction
Disappearing Earth
Julia Phillips
The Topeka School
Ben Lerner
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Lost Children Archive
Valeria Luiselli
Night Boat to Tangier
Kevin Barry
Nonfiction
Say Nothing
A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe
The Club
Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Leo Damrosch
The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom
No Visible Bruises
What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
Rachel Louise Snyder
Midnight in Chernobyl
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
