Year-End Lists

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The Mercury Prize: 2026 Award
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2025
Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2026
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Human Acts

by Han Kang

Appears on two lists

2018: International Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted
Fiction 2018: Carnegie Medal Longlisted

Trending Lists

20 Best Films of 2016 Film Comment · Film Comment Poll
2026 Award The Mercury Prize
Best Films of 2024 Mark Kermode
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
10 Best Books of 2024 Publishers Weekly
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Poetry Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
10 Best Books of 2026 Publishers Weekly
Top 50 Albums of 2017 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
The Best Movies of 2024 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll

Trending Works

Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet
Be Easy Adrian Matejka
The Danger to Be Sane Rosa Montero
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State Jill Lepore
This Vast Enterprise Craig Fehrman
The Harbingers
Spotlight: Snitch City
Public Access Afterworld Jane Schoenbrun
The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall
Transcription Ben Lerner
I You We Them Dan Gretton
In Her Nature Rachel Hewitt
The AGI Chronicles Kevin Roose
Intifadas Edward Salem

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