Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2026
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
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Destroyer
- Best Music of 2023: Steve Erickson Runner-up
Unseen Forces
- #25 Top 100 Albums of 2017: Quietus
- Favorite Albums of 2017: Sasha Frere-Jones also good

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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