Year-End Lists

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of notable 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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Fragments of Us
- #20 The Best Records of 2024: Resident Advisor
Let It Roll
- The Best Albums of 2019: Chris Willman: Variety Not to mention
On the Rocks

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

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

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