Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
The Center for Fiction: 2026 First Novel Prize
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- The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020: Time

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

Trending Works

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

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