Year-End Lists

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Goldsmiths Prize: Best Fiction of 2026
Cahiers du Cinéma: Top 10 Films of 2025
The Booker Prize: 2026 Award
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by Jesse Ball

Appears on three lists

Best Books Of 2018: Kristin Iversen: Nylon
Best Fiction of 2018: Powell's Books
Fiction 2019: Carnegie Medal Longlisted

Trending Lists

2026 Award The Booker Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Best Films of 2017 Michael Nordine · Village Voice · Village Voice Film Poll
2026 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award
The 50 Best Albums of 2025 Pitchfork
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take
2025 First Novel Prize The Center for Fiction
20 Best Films of 2014 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
Best Fiction of 2026 Goldsmiths Prize

Trending Works

Kitten Stacey Yu
A Real Animal Emeline Atwood
The Fantasies of Future Things Doug Jones
The Great Glass Sea Josh Weil
Saint Monkey Jacinda Townsend
Ruins, Child Giada Scodellaro
Kibogo Scholastique Mukasonga
The History of Living Forever Jake Wolff
Fall Back Down When I Die Joe Wilkins
What Am I, A Deer? Polly Barton
The Next Time You See Me Holly Goddard Jones
The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Blow Yourself Up Ankur Thakkar
The Rouse China Miéville

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