Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
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Real Life
- #59 Best Poetry Books & Poetry Collections of 2018: Entropy
- 5 Best Poetry Books of 2018: Publishers Weekly

Trending Lists

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

Trending Works

Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson's Boyfriend Ron Koertge
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (1999) Melissa Bank
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
Baldwin, Styron, and Me Mélikah Abdelmoumen
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
The Substance Coralie Fargeat
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
Essays One Lydia Davis

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