Year-End Lists

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Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
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Wondrous Bughouse

by Youth Lagoon

Appears on three lists

#35 50 Best Albums of 2013: Paste
#45 50 Best Albums of 2013: Stereogum

40 Best Albums of 2013: Pretty Much Amazing Honorable mention

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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