Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Jordan Cronk: Sight & Sound Poll: Best Films of 2026
The Mercury Prize: 2026 Award
Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2026
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Sacred Horror in Design

by Sote

Appears on three lists

#30 Top 50 Albums of 2017: The Wire
#76 Top 100 Albums of 2017: Quietus

Favorite Albums of 2017: Sasha Frere-Jones also good

Trending Lists

2026 Award The Booker Prize
Best Fiction of 2026 Goldsmiths Prize
Best Films of 2026 Jordan Cronk · Sight & Sound Poll
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
20 Best Films of 2016 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
The 75 Best Albums of 2026 Mojo
2026 Award Polaris Music Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
10 Best Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
80 Best Albums of 2026 Uncut
80 Best Albums of 2025 Uncut

Trending Works

The Empusium Olga Tokarczuk
Transcription Ben Lerner
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Lost Weekend Phoebe Bridgers
Ride Lonesome Beck
Bramayugam Rahul Sadasivan
Train on the Island Aldous Harding
Chuck Chuck Baby Janis Pugh
Caught by the Tides Jia Zhang-ke
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Peaches! The Black Keys
The Disappearers Marlon James
A ? of When Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
Dopamine Chamber Fontaines D.C.

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