Year-End Lists

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2026
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#8 Top 50 Albums of 2019: The Wire

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The Best Books of 2025 Economist
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
20 Best Films of 2016 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
10 Best Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2025 New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Poetry Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
The Best Movies of 2024 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction

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Spotlight: Snitch City
I You We Them Dan Gretton
Allison after NXIVM
In Her Nature Rachel Hewitt
Public Access Afterworld Jane Schoenbrun
This Vast Enterprise Craig Fehrman
The Death of King Arthur Simon Armitage (translator)
Red Rooms Pascal Plante
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State Jill Lepore
The Room Between Us Denise Saul
The Harbingers
Open The Gates Irreversible Entanglements
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall
Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet

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