Year-End Lists

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Anthony Fantano: The Needle Drop: Top 50 Albums of 2025
Economist: The Best Books of 2025
National Book Award: Nonfiction 2026
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Bluebeard's First Wife

by Ha Seong-nan

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10 Best Books of 2020: Publishers Weekly

Trending Lists

The Best Films of 2014 Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · A.V. Club
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Top 15 Films of 2014 Scott Tobias · The Dissolve
Best Films of 2014 Reverse Shot
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
Top 30 Movies of 2014 Wesley Morris · Grantland
16 Favorite Movies of 2014 Karina Longworth
Top 10 Movies of 2014 Jake Coyle · AP
Top 12 Films of 2014 Michael Sicinski
Top 15 Films of 2014 Noel Murray · The Dissolve
25 Best Films of 2014 Slant
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 50 Films of 2014 IndieWire · IndieWire Poll

Trending Works

Baldwin, Styron, and Me Mélikah Abdelmoumen
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
On Sundays She Picked Flowers Yah Yah Scholfield
A World Appears Michael Pollan
Essays One Lydia Davis
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
You Must Remember This Karina Longworth
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
KPop Demon Hunters Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
Circe Madeline Miller
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
7 Walks with Mark Brown Pierre Creton & Vincent Barré
Stranger by the Lake Alain Guiraudie

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