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
Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
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- 10 Best Poetry Books of 2018: Chicago Review of Books

Trending Lists

The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot

Trending Works

KPop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
Essays One Lydia Davis
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Baldwin, Styron, and Me Mélikah Abdelmoumen
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend

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