Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Dublin Literary Award: 2026
The Mercury Prize: 2026 Award
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2025
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Known and Strange Things

Essays

by Teju Cole

Appears on four lists

#5 The 10 Best Books of 2016: Jane Ciabattari: BBC: BBC Culture
#10 The 13 Best Books of 2016: Harper’s Bazaar
#4 Top 20 Books of 2016: Sarah Begley: Time Nonfiction

100 Recommended Books of 2016: San Francisco Chronicle Nonfiction

Trending Lists

The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
2011 Award T.S. Eliot Prize
2026 Dublin Literary Award
The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times
The 50 Best Films of 2025 Sight & Sound · Sight & Sound Poll
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s A.V. Club
The 10 Best Books of 2024 New York Times
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
The 100 Best TV Shows of the 2010s Paste
2026 Award T.S. Eliot Prize
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
2026 Award The Mercury Prize

Trending Works

Heirloom Catherine-Esther Cowie
In These Days of Prohibition Caroline Bird
All the Names Given Raymond Antrobus
Ice Gillian Clarke
The Radio Leontia Flynn
Night David Harsent
Feel Free Nick Laird
PIVOT Imani Mason Jordan
The Dark Film Paul Farley
Cafés Holly Pester
The Channel Jana Prikryl
Behold Shara McCallum
Profit and Loss Leontia Flynn
The Town with Matthew Belloni

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