Year-End Lists

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National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
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Animal Joy

by Shearwater

Appears on two lists

#24 25 Best Albums of 2012: Slant
#51 100 Favourite Albums of 2012: Drowned in Sound

Trending Lists

Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland

Trending Works

7 Walks with Mark Brown Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré
KPop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
Essays One Lydia Davis
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
You Must Remember This Karina Longworth
Circe Madeline Miller
Baldwin, Styron, and Me Mélikah Abdelmoumen

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