Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Economist: The Best Books of 2025
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Albums of 2025
Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2026
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Madness, Rack, and Honey

by Mary Ruefle

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The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s: Lit Hub Honorable mention

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The 50 Best Movies of 2025 Guardian
The Best Movies of 2025 Kyle Smith · Wall Street Journal
The 100 Best Albums of 2025 Rolling Stone
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times
Fiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
100 Notable Books of 2022 New York Times
The Best Albums of 2020 The Ringer
2026 Award The Booker Prize
31 Best Fiction Books of 2017 Guardian
The Best Films of 2025 Richard Brody · New Yorker
The Best Films of 2025 Justin Chang · New Yorker
Nonfiction 2026 Kirkus · Kirkus Prize
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Nonfiction 2026 National Book Award

Trending Works

London Falling Patrick Radden Keefe
A Hymn to Life Gisèle Pelicot
Keeper of My Kin Ada Ferrer
Luna, Phoenix, Queen Julie Orringer
Science Without Substance Daniel Barnett
Cool Machine Colson Whitehead
Best Things First Bjørn Lomborg
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking C.T. Salazar
Moon of the Turning Leaves Waubgeshig Rice
Black Folk Could Fly Randall Kenan
Catastrophe
Lumi Vaientaa Kysymykset Circle of Ouroborus
The Monsanto Years Neil Young & Promise of the Real
Catch the Devil Pamela Colloff

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