Year-End Lists

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The Booker Prize: 2026 Award
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Peter Travers: The Travers Take: The 10 Best Movies of 2025
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The Best Albums of 2016: Carl Wilson: Slate Another 15, in alphabetical order

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

Trending Works

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

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