Year-End Lists

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The Mercury Prize: 2026 Award
The Booker Prize: 2026 Award
Polaris Music Prize: 2026 Award
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Instruments

by Water Damage

Appears on two lists

#14 Top 20 Albums of 2025: Rob Sheffield: Rolling Stone

Favorite Albums of 2025: Steve Erickson Runner-up

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The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut
Fiction 2026 National Book Award
Best Fiction of 2026 Goldsmiths Prize
2026 Award Polaris Music Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
10 Best Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
2026 Award The Booker Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
Best Films of 2026 Jordan Cronk · Sight & Sound Poll
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
80 Best Albums of 2026 Uncut
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Inferno Boards of Canada
Sinners Ryan Coogler
Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied Keith Jarrett
Carrying Samantha Josephs
Marty Supreme Josh Safdie
The Candy House Jennifer Egan
One Battle After Another Paul Thomas Anderson
Make a Home of Me Vanessa Santos
All of a Sudden Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
In Late Summer Magdalena Blažević
The Boys of Dungeon Lane Paul McCartney

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