Year-End Lists

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Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2026
The Center for Fiction: 2025 First Novel Prize
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Sadness Sets Me Free

by Gruff Rhys

Appears on three lists

#11 Best Albums of 2024: Stephen Thomas Erlewine
#21 75 Best Albums of 2024: Mojo
#95 Top 100 Albums of 2024: Under the Radar

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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