Year-End Lists

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
National Book Award: Fiction 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

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

Trending Works

Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice
This Is Where the Serpent Lives Daniyal Mueenuddin
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus
The Man Who Couldn’t Miss Screenings Damon Packard
The Tsugua Diaries Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes
love has never been a popular movement. TYGAPAW
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
The Consciousness Instinct Michael S. Gazzaniga

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