Year-End Lists

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National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
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Bought to Rot

by Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers

Appears on two lists

#55 Best Albums of 2018: Stephen Thomas Erlewine

20 Best Albums of 2018: Glide Honorable mention

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Best Fiction of 2026 Goldsmiths Prize
2026 Award The Booker Prize
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
Best Films of 2021 Robert Koehler · Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Best Films of 2016 Emily St. James · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction

Trending Works

On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
Whidbey T Kira Madden
Said the Dead Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
Ruins, Child Giada Scodellaro
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
Kitten Stacey Yu

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