Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2026
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
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Louis Menand

The Free World

Trending Lists

Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
Best Fiction of 2026 Goldsmiths Prize
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot

Trending Works

Heavyweight
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie
Release Spirit Khotin
Synthetic Cinema Wheeler Winston Dixon
Kitten Stacey Yu
Kibogo Scholastique Mukasonga
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Dark Hearts Annie
The Rouse China Miéville
Mascarade Gayance
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
A Real Animal Emeline Atwood
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay
Ruins, Child Giada Scodellaro

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