Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Richard Brody: New Yorker: The Best Films of 2025
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2026
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Hello Beautiful
Dear Edward
- #56 The Best Books of 2020: Real Simple
- 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020: Washington Post

Trending Lists

10 Best Books of 2024 Publishers Weekly
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
10 Best Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
Top 50 Albums of 2018 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2026 Award T.S. Eliot Prize
20 Best Films of 2016 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
Top 50 Films of 2025 Film Stage
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Poetry Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode

Trending Works

In Her Nature Rachel Hewitt
I You We Them Dan Gretton
Raising Hare Chloe Dalton
The AGI Chronicles Kevin Roose
Be Easy Adrian Matejka
Intifadas Edward Salem
The Danger to Be Sane Rosa Montero
MITH Lonnie Holley
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Game Night John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
Public Access Afterworld Jane Schoenbrun
Transcription Ben Lerner
Spotlight: Snitch City
This Vast Enterprise Craig Fehrman

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