Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Justin Chang: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2026
Women's Prize: Fiction 2026
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The 12 Best Albums of 2024: Carl Wilson: Slate Plus 20 More (alphabetical)

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Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The Best Albums of 2020 The Ringer
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Fiction 2026 Women's Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2024 Economist
The 50 Best Movies of 2025 Guardian
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
100 Notable Books of 2022 New York Times
The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s Pitchfork
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award

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Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
The Monsanto Years Neil Young & Promise of the Real
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
2000 Meters to Andriivka Mstyslav Chernov
Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
The Tsugua Diaries Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
The Consciousness Instinct Michael S. Gazzaniga
The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe

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