Year-End Lists

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A.A. Dowd: Favorite Metal Albums of 2025
Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
The Mercury Prize: 2026 Award
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The Dreaming Room

by Laura Mvula

Appears on two lists

#18 Best 50 Albums of 2016: NPR: NPR Music

2016 Award: The Mercury Prize Shortlisted

Trending Lists

2026 Award The Mercury Prize
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
2026 Award Polaris Music Prize
Favorite Metal Albums of 2025 A.A. Dowd
Dean's List 2019 Robert Christgau
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth

Trending Works

West Carys Davies
Rule of Two Walls David Gutnik
The End of Days Jenny Erpenbeck
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain David Midell
Hold It 'Til It Hurts T. Geronimo Johnson
The Vanishing Man Laura Cumming
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Sins of the Leopard James Brookes
Interstellar Christopher Nolan
The Matter with Morris David Bergen
Loro Paolo Sorrentino
Dunya Mustafa
In the Underground Song Zhantao
Pigeon Alys Conran

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